Target Corporation is a general merchandise retailer selling products to its guests through its stores and digital channels. Co. serves guests at nearly 2,000 stores and at Target.com. It offers to its customers, referred to as guests, everyday essentials and fashionable, differentiated merchandise at discounted prices. The majority of its stores offer a wide assortment of general merchandise and food. Its merchandise categories include apparel and accessories, beauty and household essentials, food and beverage, hardlines, and home furnishings and decor. We show 61 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our TGT shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute TGT market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing TGT market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing TGT'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 TGT versus a peer is one thing; comparing
TGT 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 TGT can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching TGT by allowing them to research the TGT market cap history. |
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