Semiconductor Manufacturing International is mainly engaged in the computer-aided design, manufacturing, packaging, testing and trading of integrated circuits and other semiconductor services, as well as manufacturing and designing semiconductor masks. Co. provides integrated circuit (IC) foundry and technology services on process nodes from 0.35 micron to 28 nanometer. In addition to wafer fabrication, Co.'s service offerings include a comprehensive portfolio consisting of IC design libraries, circuit design blocks, design support, mask-making, wafer probing and gold/solder bumping. We show 4 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our SMI shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute SMI market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing SMI market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing SMI'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 SMI versus a peer is one thing; comparing
SMI 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 SMI can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching SMI by allowing them to research the SMI market cap history. |
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