Netflix, Inc. is a provider of entertainment services. Co. acquires, licenses and produces content, including original programming. Co. provides paid memberships in approximately 190 countries offering television (TV) series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Its members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time. Co. offers members the ability to receive streaming content through a host of Internet-connected devices, including TVs, digital video players, TV set-top boxes and mobile devices. We show 64 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our NFLX shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute NFLX market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing NFLX market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing NFLX'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 NFLX versus a peer is one thing; comparing
NFLX 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 NFLX can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching NFLX by allowing them to research the NFLX market cap history. |
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