Genesee & Wyoming owns or leases freight railroads worldwide. Co. has three segments: North American Operations, which includes several regions that serve U.S. states and Canadian provinces and includes short line and regional freight railroads; Australian Operations, which serves New South Wales, the Northern Territory and South Australia and operates the Tarcoola-to-Darwin rail line; and U.K./European Operations, which is led by Freightliner Group Limited, a rail maritime intermodal operator and rail freight provider, as well as regional rail services in Continental Europe. We show 40 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our GWR shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute GWR market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing GWR market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing GWR'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 GWR versus a peer is one thing; comparing
GWR 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 GWR can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching GWR by allowing them to research the GWR market cap history. |
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