Smith & Wesson Brands is a manufacturer and designer of firearms. Co. manufactures an array of handguns, long guns, handcuffs, firearm suppressors, and other firearm-related products for sale to a variety of customers, including firearm enthusiasts, collectors, individuals desiring home and personal protection, law enforcement and security agencies and officers, and military agencies in the U.S. and throughout the world. Co. sells its products under the Smith & Wesson, M&P, and Gemtech brands. Co. also sells its manufacturing services to other businesses to attempt to level-load its factories. Co. sells those services under its Smith & Wesson and Smith & Wesson Precision Components brands. We show 16 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our SWBI shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute SWBI market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing SWBI market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing SWBI'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 SWBI versus a peer is one thing; comparing
SWBI 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 SWBI can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching SWBI by allowing them to research the SWBI market cap history. |
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