Hilton Worldwide Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in hospitality with operations the following segments: management and franchise, which includes all of the hotels Co. manages for third-party owners, as well as all franchised hotels operated or managed by someone other than Co.; and Ownership, which primarily provides nightly hotel room sales, food and beverage sales and other services at its owned and leased hotels. Hilton Honors is Co.'s guest loyalty program that rewards guests with points for each stay at its properties, which are then redeemable for free nights and other goods and services. We show 22 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our HLT shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute HLT market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing HLT market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing HLT'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 HLT versus a peer is one thing; comparing
HLT 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 HLT can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching HLT by allowing them to research the HLT market cap history. |
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