Vanguard International Equity Index Funds - Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF is an open-end management investment company. The Fund is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund. The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks issued by companies located in emerging market countries. The Fund invests in various sectors, such as consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, financials, healthcare, industrials, information technology, materials, telecommunication services and utilities. As of Oct 31 2013, the Fund's investments portfolio was valued at $68,577,344,000. We show 43 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our VWO shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute VWO market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing VWO market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing VWO'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 VWO versus a peer is one thing; comparing
VWO 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 VWO can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching VWO by allowing them to research the VWO market cap history. |
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