IQVIA Holdings is a provider of analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. Co. is managed through three reportable segments: Technology and Analytics Solutions, which provides information, technology solutions and real-world insights and services to its life science clients; Research and Development Solutions, which primarily serves biopharmaceutical customers and provides outsourced clinical research and clinical trial related services; and Contract Sales and Medical Solutions, which provides health care provider (including contract sales) and patient engagement services to both biopharmaceutical customers and the healthcare market. We show 39 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our IQV shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute IQV market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing IQV market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing IQV'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 IQV versus a peer is one thing; comparing
IQV 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 IQV can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching IQV by allowing them to research the IQV market cap history. |
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