iShares U.S. Real Estate is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of the real estate sector of the United States equity market, and includes companies in the industry groups, such as real estate holding and development and real estate investment trusts. As of Apr 30 2015, the Fund's total assets were $5,254,075,807 and the Fund's investment portfolio was valued at $5,249,427,881. We show 1516 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our IYR shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute IYR market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing IYR market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing IYR'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 IYR versus a peer is one thing; comparing
IYR 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 IYR can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching IYR by allowing them to research the IYR market cap history. |
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