Valaris is an offshore contract drilling company engaged in providing offshore contract drilling services to the international oil and gas industry. The markets in which Co. operates include the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, the Mediterranean, the North Sea, the Middle East, West Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia. Co. provides drilling services on a day rate contract basis. Co.'s business consists of three operating segments: Floaters, which includes its drillships and semisubmersible rigs; Jackups; and Other, which consists of management services on rigs owned by third-parties. Co.'s two reportable segments, Floaters and Jackups, provide one service, contract drilling. We show 34 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our ESV shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute ESV market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing ESV market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing ESV'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 ESV versus a peer is one thing; comparing
ESV 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 ESV can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching ESV by allowing them to research the ESV market cap history. |
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