Marsh & McLennan is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. Co.'s segments are: Risk and Insurance Services, which includes risk management activities such as risk advice, risk transfer and risk control and mitigation solutions, as well as insurance and reinsurance broking and services; and Consulting, which includes health, wealth and career solutions and products, and other management, strategic, economic and brand consulting services. Co. conducts business in Risk and Insurance Services segment through Marsh and Guy Carpenter. Co. conducts business in Consulting segment through Mercer and Oliver Wyman Group. We show 56 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our MMC shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute MMC market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing MMC market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing MMC'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 MMC versus a peer is one thing; comparing
MMC 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 MMC can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching MMC by allowing them to research the MMC market cap history. |
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