Prudential Financial, Inc. is a financial services provider and global investment manager. Co. offers a range of financial products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related products and services, mutual funds, and investment management. It offers these products and services to individual and institutional customers through its own and third-party distribution networks. It operates in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Latin America. Its segment includes PGIM, U.S. Businesses, International Businesses, Closed Block division, and Corporate and Other operations. We show 61 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our PRU shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute PRU market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing PRU market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing PRU'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 PRU versus a peer is one thing; comparing
PRU 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 PRU can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching PRU by allowing them to research the PRU market cap history. |
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