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Shares Outstanding

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Tom DeGrace

Shares Outstanding is the total number of shares issued by a corporation.

Understand How Shares Outstanding Works

There are some advantages to having a lot of shares outstanding including more liquidity.  Though too much many new shares are issued, this could lead to delusion of share value.  To get the market cap for a company, you take the total shares multiplied by the share price.

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