West Pharmaceutical Services is a manufacturer in the design and production of integrated containment and delivery systems for injectable drugs and healthcare products. Co.'s business operations are organized into two reportable segments: Proprietary Products, which provides proprietary packaging, containment and drug delivery products, along with analytical lab services and other integrated services and solutions, mainly to biologic, generic and pharmaceutical drug customers; and Contract-Manufactured Products, which serves as an integrated business, focused on the design, manufacture, and automated assembly of devices, mainly for pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device customers. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WST shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WST market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing WST market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing WST'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 WST versus a peer is one thing; comparing
WST 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 WST can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching WST by allowing them to research the WST market cap history. |
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