Humana is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a health and well-being company. Co.'s medical and specialty insurance products allow members to access health care services primarily through its networks of health care providers with whom it has contracted. Co. manages its business with three reportable segments: Retail, which is comprised of products sold on a retail basis to individuals including medical and supplemental benefit plans; Group and Specialty, which consists of employer group commercial fully-insured medical and specialty health insurance benefits; and Healthcare Services, which includes pharmacy, provider, and home services. We show 56 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our HUM shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute HUM market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing Humana market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing Humana'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 Humana versus a peer is one thing; comparing
Humana 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 Humana can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching Humana by allowing them to research the Humana market cap history. |
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