4 ms·
There's a finite number of shares. You can look up the market capitalization, divide by the price, and get the number of outstanding shares, though it's also a
by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
There's a finite number of shares. You can look up the market capitalization, divide by the price, and get the number of outstanding shares, though it's also a reported statistic on its own.
- i0exception 5y agoCompanies can always issue new shares to dilute you (or in Apple's case, buy them back to reduce the number of shares)
- JMTQp8lwXL 5y agoCorrect, but the number of shares outstanding isn't infinite: it's always a fixed number. Just like there's a fixed number of square miles of land. And you can make and remove land. Lots of dredging along coastlines is done to make land. It isn't a great analogy and investment decisions should not be based on the concept.