GameStop provides games and entertainment products through its stores and ecommerce platforms. Co.'s products include: hardware and accessories, which provide new and pre-owned gaming platforms from the console and PC manufacturers as well as provide accessories such as controllers and gaming headsets; software, which provides new and pre-owned gaming software for existing and certain prior generation consoles; and collectibles, which include apparel, toys, and other retail products for pop culture and technology enthusiasts, and digital asset wallet and non-fungible tokens marketplace activities. Co. also allows customers to trade-in their pre-owned gaming, mobility, and other products. We show 58 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our GME shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute GME market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing GME market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing GME'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 GME versus a peer is one thing; comparing
GME 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 GME can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching GME by allowing them to research the GME market cap history. |
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