iShares Trust Russell Midcap Value 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 Russell Midcap Value Index (the Value Index). The Value Index measures the performance of the mid-capitalization value sector of the United States equity market. The Fund invests in a representative sample of securities included in the Value Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Value Index. As of Mar 31 2015, the Fund's total assets and investment portfolio totaled $7,602,393,111 and $7,570,265,251, respectively. We show 749 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our IWS shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute IWS market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing IWS market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing IWS'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 IWS versus a peer is one thing; comparing
IWS 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 IWS can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching IWS by allowing them to research the IWS market cap history. |
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