Waste Connections is engaged as an integrated solid waste services company that provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer and disposal services, along with recycling and resource recovery, in secondary markets in the U.S. and Canada. Co. provides non-hazardous oilfield waste treatment, recovery and disposal services in several basins across the U.S., as well as intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest. Co. provides residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers recycling services for recyclable materials, including compost, cardboard, mixed paper, plastic containers, glass bottles and ferrous and aluminum metals. We show 26 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WCN shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WCN market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing WCN market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing WCN'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 WCN versus a peer is one thing; comparing
WCN 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 WCN can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching WCN by allowing them to research the WCN market cap history. |
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