Stanley Black & Decker provides hand tools, power tools, outdoor products and related accessories, engineered fastening solutions and attachment tools. Co.'s segments are: Tools and Outdoor, which includes the Power Tools Group that includes other and consumer products, Hand Tools, Accessories and Storage that sells hand tools, power tool accessories and storage products, and Outdoor Power Equipment businesses that sells corded and cordless electric lawn and garden products; and Industrial, which includes the Engineered Fastening that sells engineered components and various engineered products, and Infrastructure businesses that sells hydraulic tools and heavy equipment attachment tools. We show 59 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our SWK shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute SWK market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing SWK market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing SWK'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 SWK versus a peer is one thing; comparing
SWK 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 SWK can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching SWK by allowing them to research the SWK market cap history. |
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