Federal Realty Investment Trust is an equity real estate investment trust (REIT). Co. is engaged in ownership, operation and redevelopment of retail-based properties located in coastal markets from Washington, D.C. to Boston as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles. Its portfolio includes retail in many formats ranging from regional, community and neighborhood shopping centers that often are anchored by grocery stores to mixed-use properties that are centered around a retail component but also include office, residential and/or hotel components. These properties are located in metropolitan markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S., California, and South Florida. We show 61 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our FRT shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute FRT market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing FRT market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing FRT'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 FRT versus a peer is one thing; comparing
FRT 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 FRT can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching FRT by allowing them to research the FRT market cap history. |
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