Validus Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. provides reinsurance coverage, insurance coverage and insurance linked securities management via four segments: Validus Reinsurance, Ltd., which is a reinsurance segment focused on treaty reinsurance; Talbot Holdings Ltd., which is a specialty insurance segment, primarily operating within the Lloyd's insurance market; Western World Insurance Group Inc., which is a specialty excess and surplus lines insurance segment; and AlphaCat Managers, Ltd., which is an investment adviser, managing capital for third parties and Co. in insurance linked securities and other property catastrophe and specialty reinsurance investments. We show 36 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our VR shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute VR market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing VR market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing VR'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 VR versus a peer is one thing; comparing
VR 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 VR can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching VR by allowing them to research the VR market cap history. |
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