Northern Trust is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking solutions. Co.'s segments are: Asset Servicing, which provides asset servicing and related services to corporate and public retirement funds, foundations, endowments, fund managers, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional investors; and Wealth Management, which provides trust, investment management, custody, and philanthropic services, financial consulting, guardianship and estate administration, family business consulting, family financial education, brokerage services, and private and business banking. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our NTRS shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute NTRS market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing NTRS market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing NTRS'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 NTRS versus a peer is one thing; comparing
NTRS 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 NTRS can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching NTRS by allowing them to research the NTRS market cap history. |
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