Wayfair is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is an online destination for the home. Through its e-commerce platform, Co. provides customers with browsing, merchandising and product discovery for various products from several suppliers. Co. has built online selections of furniture, decor, housewares and home improvement products. Co.'s operating and reportable segments are the U.S. and International, which includes its businesses in Canada, the U.K. and Germany. Co. provides a family of sites including Wayfair, Joss & Main, AllModern, Birch Lane, and Perigold. On its sites, Co. also features certain products under its house brands, such as Three Posts® and Mercury Row®. We show 37 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our W shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute W market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing W market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing W'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 W versus a peer is one thing; comparing
W 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 W can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching W by allowing them to research the W market cap history. |
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