ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is a global asset-light container liner shipping company. Co. provides both door-to-door and port-to-port transportation services for all types of customers, including end-users, consolidators and freight forwarders. Co. partners with regional and local land transportation operators to provide inland transportation services via rail, truck and river barge. Co. also provides ZIMonitor, its reefer cargo tracking service. ZIMonitor is a real-time monitoring device that, among other things, allows Co.'s customers to monitor their shipments in real time. Co. provides other logistics services for all kinds of cargo, including out-of-gauge cargo and reefer cargo. We show 2 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our ZIM shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute ZIM market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing ZIM market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing ZIM'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 ZIM versus a peer is one thing; comparing
ZIM 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 ZIM can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching ZIM by allowing them to research the ZIM market cap history. |
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