The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a global financial institution that delivers a range of financial services to a large and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Its segments include Global Banking & Markets, Asset & Wealth Management and Platform Solutions. The Global Banking & Markets segment offers a range of services, including financing, advisory services, risk distribution, and hedging for its institutional and corporate clients. It facilitates client transactions and makes markets in fixed income, equity, currency and commodity products. We show 49 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our GS shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute GS market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing GS market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing GS'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 GS versus a peer is one thing; comparing
GS 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 GS can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching GS by allowing them to research the GS market cap history. |
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