Webster Financial is a bank holding company and financial holding company. Co., through its subsidiary, Webster Bank, National Association (Webster Bank) and its HSA Bank division, delivers a range of banking, investment, and financial services. Webster Bank serves consumer and business customers with mortgage lending, financial planning, trust, and investment services through a distribution network consisting of banking centers, ATMs, a customer care center, and a range of web and mobile-based banking services. HSA Bank is a provider of health savings accounts and also delivers health reimbursement arrangements, and spending and commuter benefit account administration services. We show 56 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WBS shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WBS market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing WBS market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing WBS'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 WBS versus a peer is one thing; comparing
WBS 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 WBS can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching WBS by allowing them to research the WBS market cap history. |
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