Nordstrom is a fashion retailer that provides brand-name and private label merchandise for women, men, young adults and children, with a focus on apparel, shoes, beauty, accessories and home goods. Co. provides brand-name and private label merchandise across its digital and physical assets in both its Nordstrom.com, Nordstrom U.S. stores, Nordstrom.ca, Nordstrom Canadian stores and Nordstrom Rack Canadian stores, Nordstrom Local service hubs, and ASOS Nordstrom (collectively, Nordstrom), and NordstromRack.com, Nordstrom Rack U.S. stores, and Last Chance clearance stores (collectively, Nordstrom Rack) banners. Nordstrom Rack purchases merchandise from the same vendors carried at Nordstrom. We show 58 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our JWN shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute JWN market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing JWN market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing JWN'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 JWN versus a peer is one thing; comparing
JWN 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 JWN can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching JWN by allowing them to research the JWN market cap history. |
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