Eaton Vance is engaged in managing investment funds and providing investment management and advisory services to high-net-worth individuals and institutions. Through its investment affiliates, Co. manages active equity, income, alternative and blended strategies across a range of investment styles and asset classes, including U.S., global and international equities, floating-rate bank loans, municipal bonds, global income, high-yield and investment grade bonds, and mortgage-backed securities, as well as a range of systematic investment strategies, including systematic equity, systematic fixed income, systematic alternatives and managed options strategies. We show 43 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our EV shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute EV market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing EV market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing EV'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 EV versus a peer is one thing; comparing
EV 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 EV can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching EV by allowing them to research the EV market cap history. |
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