Dean Foods is a food and beverage company and a processor and direct-to-store distributor of fluid milk and other dairy and dairy case products. Co. manufactures, markets and distributes a branded and private label dairy and dairy case products, including fluid milk, ice cream, cultured dairy products, creamers, ice cream mix and other dairy products to retailers, educational institutions and governmental entities. Co.'s portfolio includes DairyPure®, and TruMoo® flavored milk brand, along with dairy brands such as Alta Dena ®, Berkeley Farms ®, Country Fresh ®, Dean's ®, Friendly's ®, Lehigh Valley Dairy Farms ®, and more. Co. also makes and distributes juices, teas and bottled water. We show 25 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our DF shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute DF market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing DF market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing DF'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 DF versus a peer is one thing; comparing
DF 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 DF can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching DF by allowing them to research the DF market cap history. |
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