Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund ETF is an open-end management investment company. The Fund is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index Fund. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE All-World ex US Index (the Index). The Index includes approximately 2,200 stocks of companies in 46 countries, from both developed and emerging markets worldwide. As of Oct 31 2013, the Fund's investment portfolio was valued at $20,303,512,000. We show 8 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our VEU shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute VEU market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing VEU market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing VEU'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 VEU versus a peer is one thing; comparing
VEU 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 VEU can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching VEU by allowing them to research the VEU market cap history. |
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