iShares Trust Russell 3000 Index Fund 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 United States equity market, as represented by the Russell 3000 Index (the Index). It serves as the underlying index for Russell 3000 Growth and Value series and the Russell 1000 and Russell 2000 Indexes, as well as their respective Growth and Value series. As of Mar 31 2015, the Fund's total assets and investment portfolio totaled $6,646,219,009 and $6,632,244,296, respectively. We show 124 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our IWV shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute IWV market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing IWV market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing IWV'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 IWV versus a peer is one thing; comparing
IWV 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 IWV can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching IWV by allowing them to research the IWV market cap history. |
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