Wabtec primarily serves the global freight rail and passenger transit industries. Co. provides its products and services through two segments: Freight, which primarily manufactures and provides aftermarket parts and services for new locomotives; provides components for new and existing locomotives and freight cars; builds new commuter locomotives; and supplies rail control and infrastructure products, among others: and Transit, which primarily manufactures and services components for new and existing passenger transit vehicles, mainly regional trains, high speed trains, subway cars, light-rail vehicles and buses; and supplies rail control and infrastructure products, among others. We show 51 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WAB shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WAB market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing WAB market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing WAB'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 WAB versus a peer is one thing; comparing
WAB 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 WAB can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching WAB by allowing them to research the WAB market cap history. |
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