US Ecology is a provider of environmental services to commercial and governmental entities. Co.'s reportable segments include: Environmental Services, which involve the transportation, treatment, recycling and disposal of hazardous, non-hazardous and radioactive wastes, and include physical treatment, recycling, landfill and deep-well injection disposal and wastewater treatment services; and Field and Industrial Services, which include various specialty and total waste management services provided to refineries, chemical plants, steel and automotive plants, and other government, commercial and industrial facilities either on-site or at its network of facilities located throughout the U.S. We show 49 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our ECOL shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute ECOL market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing ECOL market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing ECOL'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 ECOL versus a peer is one thing; comparing
ECOL 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 ECOL can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching ECOL by allowing them to research the ECOL market cap history. |
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