Forward Industries, through its subsidiaries, is a design, manufacturing, sourcing and distribution provider for medical and technology customers. Co. sells carrying cases for blood glucose diagnostic kits to original equipment manufacturer customers, or their contract manufacturers. These electronic monitoring kits are made for use by diabetics. Co. also sells carrying and protective solutions to customers for an array of other portable electronic and other products, including sporting and recreational products, bar code scanners, GPS location devices, tablets, and firearms, on a made-to-order basis that are customized to fit the products sold by its customers. We show 59 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our FORD shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute FORD market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing FORD market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing FORD'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 FORD versus a peer is one thing; comparing
FORD 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 FORD can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching FORD by allowing them to research the FORD market cap history. |
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