Waterstone Financial is a savings and loan holding company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, WaterStone Bank SSB (the Bank), Co. provides financial services to customers in southeastern Wisconsin. The Bank's principal lending activity is originating one- to four-family, multi-family residential, and commercial real estate loans for retention in its portfolio. The Bank also provides home equity loans and lines of credit, construction and land loans, commercial business loans, and consumer loans. Co.'s deposit offerings include certificates of deposit, money market savings accounts, transaction deposit accounts, noninterest bearing demand accounts and individual retirement accounts. We show 42 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WSBF shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WSBF market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing WSBF market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing WSBF'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 WSBF versus a peer is one thing; comparing
WSBF 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 WSBF can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching WSBF by allowing them to research the WSBF market cap history. |
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