Williams Partners is an energy infrastructure company that engaged in the gathering, processing and interstate transportation of natural gas and natural gas liquids. Co. operates in four business segments: Northeast G&P, which include natural gas gathering, compression, processing and NGL fractionation business in the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions; Atlantic-Gulf, which includes the Transco interstate natural gas pipeline that extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the eastern seaboard; West, which includes the Northwest Pipeline interstate natural gas pipeline; and natural gas liquids & Petchem Services, which operates an ethylene storage hub. We show 25 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WPZ shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WPZ market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing WPZ market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing WPZ'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 WPZ versus a peer is one thing; comparing
WPZ 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 WPZ can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching WPZ by allowing them to research the WPZ market cap history. |
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