W. R. Berkley is an insurance holding company. Co. operates in two segments of the property casualty insurance business: Insurance, which includes commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines and specialty personal lines throughout the U.S., as well as insurance business in the U.K., Continental Europe, South America, Canada, Mexico, Scandinavia, Asia and Australia; and Reinsurance and Monoline Excess, which provides reinsurance business on a facultative and treaty basis, primarily in the U.S., the U.K., Continental Europe, Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and South Africa. We show 58 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WRB shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WRB market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing WRB market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing WRB'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 WRB versus a peer is one thing; comparing
WRB 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 WRB can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching WRB by allowing them to research the WRB market cap history. |
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