Destination Maternity is a designer and retailer of maternity apparel. Co. operates in various retail locations, including stores in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, and leased departments located within department stores and baby specialty stores throughout the U.S. and in Puerto Rico. Co. also sells its merchandise on the Internet, primarily through its Motherhood.com, APeaInThePod.com and DestinationMaternity.com websites. In addition, Co. has international store and product supply relationships in the Middle East, South Korea, Mexico and Israel. Co. has various international franchised locations, comprised of stand-alone stores and shop-in-shop locations. We show 41 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our DEST shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute DEST market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing DEST market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing DEST's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of DEST versus a peer is one thing; comparing
DEST market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like DEST can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching DEST by allowing them to research the DEST market cap history. |
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