Occidental Petroleum Corporation is an international energy company with assets primarily in the U.S., the Middle East, and North Africa. Co. is an oil and gas producer in the U.S., including a producer in the Permian and DJ basins, and the offshore Gulf of Mexico. It operates through three segments: oil and gas, chemical and midstream and marketing. The oil and gas segment explores for, develops, and produces oil (which includes condensate), natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas. The chemical segment primarily manufactures and markets basic chemicals and vinyls. We show 60 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our OXY shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute OXY market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing OXY market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing OXY'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 OXY versus a peer is one thing; comparing
OXY 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 OXY can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching OXY by allowing them to research the OXY market cap history. |
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