Unilever operates in the fast moving consumer goods industry. Co.'s range of around 400 household brands includes Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Rexona, Hellmann's and Omo. Co. has three segments: Beauty & Personal Care, which primarily sells skin care and hair care products, deodorants and oral care products; Foods & Refreshment, which primarily sells soups, bouillons, sauces, snacks, mayonnaise, salad dressings, margarines and spreads, ice cream and tea-based beverages; and Home Care, which primarily sells home care products, such as powders, liquids and capsules, soap bars and a range of cleaning products. We show 9 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our UN shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute UN market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing UN market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing UN'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 UN versus a peer is one thing; comparing
UN 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 UN can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching UN by allowing them to research the UN market cap history. |
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