Wintrust Financial is a financial holding company. Co. conducts its businesses through three primary segments: community banking, specialty finance and wealth management. Through its community banking segment, Co.'s banking subsidiaries (collectively, the banks) provide community-oriented, personal and commercial banking services to customers located in the Chicago metropolitan area, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana (Co.'s market area). Through its specialty finance segment, Co. provides financing of insurance premiums for businesses and individuals; accounts receivable financing, out-sourced administrative services; and other finance businesses. We show 56 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WTFC shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WTFC market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing WTFC market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing WTFC'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 WTFC versus a peer is one thing; comparing
WTFC 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 WTFC can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching WTFC by allowing them to research the WTFC market cap history. |
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