Oppenheimer Holdings, through its operating subsidiaries, is a middle-market investment bank and broker-dealer. Co. is engaged in a range of activities in the financial services industry, including retail securities brokerage, institutional sales and trading, investment banking (both corporate and public finance), equity and fixed income research, research, market-making, trust services and investment advisory and asset management services. Co.'s reportable segments are: Private Client, Asset Management, and Capital Markets. We show 55 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our OPY shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute OPY market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing OPY market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing OPY'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 OPY versus a peer is one thing; comparing
OPY 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 OPY can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching OPY by allowing them to research the OPY market cap history. |
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