iShares S&P 500 Index Fund is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of the large-capitalization sector of the United States equity market. The Index includes approximately 80% of the market capitalization of all publicly traded the United States equity securities. The component stocks are weighted according to the total float-adjusted market value of their outstanding shares. As of Mar 31 2015, the Fund's total assets were $69,255,887,700 and the Fund's investment portfolio was valued at $69,164,247,657. We show 1170 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our IVV shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute IVV market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing IVV market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing IVV'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 IVV versus a peer is one thing; comparing
IVV 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 IVV can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching IVV by allowing them to research the IVV market cap history. |
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