iShares MSCI Belgium Capped ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to track the investment results of a broad-based index composed of Belgian equities, as represented by the MSCI Belgium Investable Market Index 25/50 (the “Index”). The Fund invests in a representative sample of securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index. Due to the use of representative sampling, the Fund may or may not hold all of the securities that are included in the Index. As of Aug 31 2015, the Fund's total assets were $158,705,613 and the Fund's investment portfolio was valued at $155,568,141. We show 249 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our EWK shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute EWK market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing EWK market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing EWK'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 EWK versus a peer is one thing; comparing
EWK 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 EWK can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching EWK by allowing them to research the EWK market cap history. |
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