General Dynamics is an aerospace and defense company. Co.'s operating segments include: Aerospace, which consists of Co.'s Gulfstream that designs, develops and manufactures aircraft and Jet Aviation that provides a suite of aircraft services for aircraft owners and operators; Marine Systems, which designs and builds nuclear-powered submarines and provides in surface combatant and auxiliary ship design and construction; Combat Systems, which is a manufacturer and integrator of land combat solutions; and Technologies, which provides a range of services, technologies and products to a market that seeks solutions combining electronic hardware with software. We show 45 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our GD shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute GD market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing GD market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing GD'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 GD versus a peer is one thing; comparing
GD 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 GD can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching GD by allowing them to research the GD market cap history. |
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