Vanguard Russell 3000 Growth Index Fund is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the broad U.S. stock market. The fund is designed to track the performance of the Russell 3000A® Index, which represents approximately 98% of the U.S. equity market and comprises the 3,000 largest companies in the United States. It attempts to replicate the target index by investing its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. As of Aug 31 2013, the Fund's investments portfolio was valued at $501,781,000. We show 2 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our VTHR shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute VTHR market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing VTHR market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing VTHR'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 VTHR versus a peer is one thing; comparing
VTHR 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 VTHR can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching VTHR by allowing them to research the VTHR market cap history. |
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