iShares International Select Dividend is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance of the Dow Jones EPAC Select Dividend Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of a selected group of equity securities issued by companies that have provided relatively high dividend yields on a consistent basis over time. The Fund invests in a representative sample of securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index. As of Apr 30 2015, the Fund's total assets and investment portfolio totaled $4,635,564,083 and $4,604,774,773, respectively. We show 579 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our IDV shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute IDV market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing IDV market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing IDV'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 IDV versus a peer is one thing; comparing
IDV 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 IDV can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching IDV by allowing them to research the IDV market cap history. |
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