Walgreens Boots Alliance is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in retail pharmacy. Co.'s reportable segments are: U.S. Retail Pharmacy, International, and U.S. Healthcare. Co.'s U.S. Retail Pharmacy segment includes the Walgreens business which is comprised of the operations of retail drugstores, health and wellness services, specialty and home delivery pharmacy services, and its equity method investment in AmerisourceBergen Corporation. The International segment consists of pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses outside the U.S. and the pharmaceutical wholesaling and distribution business in Germany. Co.'s U.S. Healthcare segment is a healthcare business. We show 39 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WBA shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WBA market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing WBA market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing WBA'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 WBA versus a peer is one thing; comparing
WBA 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 WBA can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching WBA by allowing them to research the WBA market cap history. |
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