Kulicke and Soffa Industries designs, manufactures and sells capital equipment and tools used to assemble semiconductor devices, including integrated circuits, light-emitting diodes, and power modules. In addition, Co. has a portfolio of equipment that is used to assemble components onto electronic circuit boards. Co. also services, maintains, repairs and upgrades its equipment, and sells consumable aftermarket tools for its and its peer companies' equipment. Co.'s customers primarily consist of semiconductor device manufacturers, integrated device manufacturers, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers, other electronics manufacturers and automotive electronics suppliers. We show 56 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our KLIC shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute KLIC market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing KLIC market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing KLIC'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 KLIC versus a peer is one thing; comparing
KLIC 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 KLIC can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching KLIC by allowing them to research the KLIC market cap history. |
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