Mettler-Toledo International is a supplier of precision instruments and services. Co. manufactures weighing instruments for use in laboratory, industrial, packaging, logistics, and food retailing applications. Co. also manufactures several related analytical instruments and provides automated chemistry solutions used in drug and chemical compound discovery and development. In addition, Co. manufactures metal detection and other end-of-line inspection systems used in production and packaging and provides solutions for use in certain process analytics applications. Co.'s reportable segments include U.S. Operations, Swiss Operations, Western European Operations, Chinese Operations, and Other. We show 59 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our MTD shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute MTD market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing MTD market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing MTD'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 MTD versus a peer is one thing; comparing
MTD 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 MTD can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching MTD by allowing them to research the MTD market cap history. |
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