iShares Core Short-Term U.S. Bond is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Barclays U.S. Government/Credit 1-5 Year Bond Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of U.S. dollar-denominated U.S. Treasury bonds, U.S. and non-U.S. government-related bonds and investment-grade U.S. corporate bonds that have a remaining maturity of greater than or equal to one year and less than five years. As of Oct 31 2015, the Fund's total assets were $586,300,085 and the Fund's investment portfolio was valued at $575,714,205. We show 164 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our ISTB shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute ISTB market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing ISTB market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing ISTB'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 ISTB versus a peer is one thing; comparing
ISTB 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 ISTB can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching ISTB by allowing them to research the ISTB market cap history. |
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