DTE Energy is a holding company. Co. is engaged in the generation, purchase, distribution and sale of electricity to customers in southeastern Michigan through its DTE Electric Company subsidiary, as well as in the purchase, storage, transportation, distribution and sale of natural gas throughout Michigan and the sale of storage and transportation capacity through its DTE Gas Company subsidiary. Co.'s non-utility operations are: gas storage and pipelines, which consists of natural gas pipeline, gathering, transportation, and storage businesses; power and industrial projects; and energy trading, which consists of energy marketing and trading operations. We show 42 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our DTE shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute DTE market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing DTE market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing DTE'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 DTE versus a peer is one thing; comparing
DTE 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 DTE can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching DTE by allowing them to research the DTE market cap history. |
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