Reinsurance Group of America is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a provider of life and health reinsurance and financial solutions. Co. provides reinsurance agreements that cover a portfolio of life and health insurance products, including term life, credit life, universal life, whole life, group life and health, joint and last survivor insurance, critical illness, disability, longevity as well as asset-intensive (such as annuities), financial reinsurance and other capital motivated solutions. Generally, Co., through various subsidiaries, has provided reinsurance for mortality, morbidity, lapse and investment-related risks associated with such products. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our RGA shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute RGA market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing RGA market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing RGA'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 RGA versus a peer is one thing; comparing
RGA 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 RGA can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching RGA by allowing them to research the RGA market cap history. |
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