Mosaic is a producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients. Co.'s reportable business segments: Phosphates, which owns and operates mines and production facilities in Florida that produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients and phosphate-based animal feed ingredients, and processing plants in Louisiana that produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients; Potash, which mines and processes potash in Canada and the U.S. and sells potash in North America and internationally; and Mosaic Fertilizantes, which produces and sells concentrated phosphates crop nutrients, phosphate-based animal feed ingredients and potash fertilizer. We show 53 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our MOS shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute MOS market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing Mosaic market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing Mosaic'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 Mosaic versus a peer is one thing; comparing
Mosaic 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 Mosaic can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching Mosaic by allowing them to research the Mosaic market cap history. |
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