FactSet Research Systems is a global financial data and analytics company. Co.'s platform delivers data, analytics, and technology that financial personnel need in their investment workflows. Several asset managers, bankers, wealth managers, asset owners, channel partners, hedge funds, corporate users, private equity and venture capital personnel, use Co.'s solutions in investment research, portfolio construction and analysis, trade execution, performance measurement, risk management, and reporting. Co. executes its strategy through its three workflow solutions: Research and Advisory; Analytics and Trading; and Content and Technology. We show 52 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our FDS shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute FDS market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing FDS market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing FDS'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 FDS versus a peer is one thing; comparing
FDS 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 FDS can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching FDS by allowing them to research the FDS market cap history. |
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