Oracle provides products and services that address enterprise information technology environments. Co.'s products and services include applications and infrastructure offerings. Co.'s cloud and license business engages in the sale, marketing and delivery of its enterprise applications and infrastructure technologies through cloud and on-premise deployment models including its cloud services and license support offerings; and its cloud license and on-premise license offerings. Co.'s hardware business provides Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, industry-specific hardware, operating systems, virtualization, management and other hardware-related software. We show 53 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our ORCL shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute ORCL market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing ORCL market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing ORCL'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 ORCL versus a peer is one thing; comparing
ORCL 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 ORCL can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching ORCL by allowing them to research the ORCL market cap history. |
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