Intercontinental Exchange is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. provides market infrastructure, data services and technology solutions. Co.'s segments are: Exchanges, which operates regulated marketplaces for the listing, trading and clearing of derivatives contracts and financial securities, such as commodities, interest rates, foreign exchange and equities; Fixed Income and Data Services, which includes fixed income data and analytics offerings, fixed income execution, credit default swaps clearing and other multi-asset class data and network services; and Mortgage Technology, which includes origination technology, closing solutions, data and analytics, and other services. We show 42 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our ICE shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute ICE market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing ICE market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing ICE'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 ICE versus a peer is one thing; comparing
ICE 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 ICE can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching ICE by allowing them to research the ICE market cap history. |
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