iShares S&P Global Healthcare Sector 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 S&P Global 1200 Healthcare Sector Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of companies that Standards & Poor's Financial Services LLC (S&P) deems to be a part of the consumer staples sector of the economy. Component companies include healthcare providers, biotechnology companies and manufacturers of medical supplies, advanced medical devices and pharmaceuticals. As of Mar 31 2015, the Fund's total assets and investment portfolio totaled $1,707,670,996 and $1,703,204,130, respectively. We show 359 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our IXJ shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute IXJ market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing IXJ market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing IXJ'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 IXJ versus a peer is one thing; comparing
IXJ 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 IXJ can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching IXJ by allowing them to research the IXJ market cap history. |
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