Vanguard Index Funds - Vanguard Total Stock Market 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 the overall stock market. The Fund invests in various sectors which include Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Energy, Financials, Health Care, Industrials, Information Technology, Materials, Telecommunication Services and Utilities. As of Dec 31 2013, the Fund's investments portfolio was valued at $308,191,960,000. We show 73 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our VTI shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute VTI market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing VTI market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing VTI'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 VTI versus a peer is one thing; comparing
VTI 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 VTI can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching VTI by allowing them to research the VTI market cap history. |
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