L Brands is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is focused on home fragrance products, body care, soaps and sanitizers, women's intimate and other apparel, and personal and beauty care products. Co. sells its merchandise through Co.-operated specialty retail stores, other channels and its websites. Co.'s segments: Bath & Body Works, which sells products under the Bath & Body Works, White Barn, C.O. Bigelow and other brand names, is a specialty retailers of body care, home fragrance products, soaps and sanitizers; Victoria's Secret, which is a specialty retailer of women's intimate and other apparel with fashion-inspired collections and prestige fragrances. We show 48 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our LB shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute LB market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing L Brands market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing L Brands'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 L Brands versus a peer is one thing; comparing
L Brands 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 L Brands can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching L Brands by allowing them to research the L Brands market cap history. |
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