Sempra is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. has several segments, including: San Diego Gas & Electric Company, which is a regulated public utility that provides electric services in Southern California; Southern California Gas Company, which is a regulated public utility that owns and operates a natural gas distribution, transmission and storage system that supplies natural gas in Southern California and portions of central California; and Sempra Texas Utilities, which includes Oncor Electric Delivery Holdings Company LLC, a regulated electricity transmission and distribution utility that operates in the north-central, eastern, western and panhandle regions of Texas. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our SRE shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute SRE market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing Sempra Energy market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing Sempra Energy'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 Sempra Energy versus a peer is one thing; comparing
Sempra Energy 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 Sempra Energy can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching Sempra Energy by allowing them to research the Sempra Energy market cap history. |
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