Gentex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and supplies digital vision, connected car, dimmable glass, and fire protection products. It offers automatic-dimming and non-automatic-dimming rearview mirrors and electronics for the automotive industry, dimmable aircraft windows for aviation, and commercial smoke alarms and signaling devices for fire protection. The company specializes in automatic-dimming automotive rearview mirrors using electrochromic technology to reduce headlight glare. It also creates electronics for interior visors and overhead consoles, adding value to its rearview mirrors. We show 61 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our GNTX shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute GNTX market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing GNTX market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing GNTX'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 GNTX versus a peer is one thing; comparing
GNTX 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 GNTX can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching GNTX by allowing them to research the GNTX market cap history. |
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