Overstock.com provides products, including furniture, decor, area rugs, bedding and bath, home improvement, outdoor, and kitchen and dining items, among others, through its online business. Co. sells its products and services through its Internet websites located at www.overstock.com, www.o.co, www.overstock.ca, and www.overstockgovernment.com (referred to collectively as the Website) and through its mobile app. Co. provides additional products or services that may complement its retail offerings, including: businesses advertising products or services on its Website; and Market Partner, a service it provides to its partners where they can sell their products through third party sites. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our OSTK shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute OSTK market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing OSTK market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing OSTK'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 OSTK versus a peer is one thing; comparing
OSTK 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 OSTK can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching OSTK by allowing them to research the OSTK market cap history. |
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Video: The Importance of Market Cap
