Global Payments is a payments technology company providing software and services to merchant locations and financial institutions. Co. operates in three segments: Merchant Solutions, which provides payments technology and software solutions to customers globally; Issuer Solutions, which provides solutions that enable financial institutions and other financial service providers to manage their card portfolios, reduce technical complexity and overhead; and Business and Consumer Solutions, which provides general purpose reloadable prepaid debit and payroll cards, demand deposit accounts and other financial service solutions through its Netspend® brand and other brands. We show 58 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our GPN shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute GPN market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing GPN market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing GPN'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 GPN versus a peer is one thing; comparing
GPN 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 GPN can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching GPN by allowing them to research the GPN market cap history. |
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