Liquidity Services is a commerce company providing trusted marketplace platforms. Co.'s segments are: GovDeals, which provides self-directed service solutions that enable local and state government entities to sell surplus, salvage and real estate assets; Capital Assets Group, which provides managed and self-directed service solutions to sellers and consists of marketplaces that enable commercial businesses to sell surplus and idle assets; Retail Supply Chain Group, which consists of marketplaces that enable corporations located in the U.S. and Canada to sell surplus and salvage consumer goods; and Machinio, which operates a global search engine platform for listing used equipment for sale. We show 55 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our LQDT shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute LQDT market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing LQDT market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing LQDT'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 LQDT versus a peer is one thing; comparing
LQDT 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 LQDT can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching LQDT by allowing them to research the LQDT market cap history. |
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Video: The Importance of Market Cap
