Vanguard International Equity Index Funds - Total World Stock Index Fund ETF is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of global stocks. The Fund invests in both foreign and the United States stocks. The Fund operates in various regions, such as the United States, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Italy, Korea and Brazil. As of Oct 31 2013, the Fund's investment portfolio was valued at $5,136,242,000. We show 1 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our VT shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute VT market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing VT market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing VT'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 VT versus a peer is one thing; comparing
VT 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 VT can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching VT by allowing them to research the VT market cap history. |
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