Fomento Economico Mexicano participates in: the beverage industry, through its subsidiary Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V. a franchise bottler of Coca-Cola products; the retail industry, through its subsidiary FEMSA Comercio, S.A. de C.V. comprised of the Proximity Division, operating the OXXO store chain, the Fuel Division, operating the OXXO Gas chain of retail service stations and the Health Division, which includes drugstores and related operations; the beer industry, through the Heineken Investment; and other ancillary businesses, through its Other Businesses, including logistics services, distribution, point-of-sale refrigeration, food processing equipment and plastics solutions. We show 1 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our FMX shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute FMX market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing FMX market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing FMX'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 FMX versus a peer is one thing; comparing
FMX 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 FMX can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching FMX by allowing them to research the FMX market cap history. |
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