Buckeye Partners is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. owns and operates integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, including transportation, storage, processing and marketing of liquid petroleum products. Co. has three segments: Domestic Pipelines and Terminals, which provides pipeline transportation services; Global Marine Terminals, which provides marine accessible bulk storage and blending services, rail and truck rack loading/unloading, and petroleum processing services in the East Coast and Gulf Coast regions of the U.S. and in the Caribbean; and Merchant Services, which distributes refined petroleum products in the continental U.S. and in the Caribbean. We show 35 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our coverage of BPL's shares outstanding history.
Understanding the changing numbers of BPL shares outstanding — and
comprehending the concept of differing number of shares outstanding in general comparing companies like BPL versus peers —
is critical for investors. 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.
Furthermore, via issuance of new shares over time, or the repurchase of existing shares, the number of shares outstanding can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching BPL by allowing them to research BPL shares outstanding history
as well as any other stock in our coverage universe. |
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