Schnitzer Steel Industries engages as a recycler of ferrous and nonferrous metal, including end-of-life vehicles, and a manufacturer of finished steel products. Co. acquires, processes, and recycles end-of-life (salvaged) vehicles, rail cars, home appliances, industrial machinery, manufacturing scrap, and construction and demolition scrap through its facilities. At its metals recycling facilities, Co. processes mixed and large pieces of scrap metal into smaller pieces by crushing, torching, shearing, shredding, separating, and sorting, resulting in recycled ferrous, nonferrous, and mixed metal pieces of a size, density, and metal content required by customers to meet their production needs. We show 47 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our coverage of SCHN's shares outstanding history.
Understanding the changing numbers of SCHN shares outstanding — and
comprehending the concept of differing number of shares outstanding in general comparing companies like SCHN 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 SCHN by allowing them to research SCHN shares outstanding history
as well as any other stock in our coverage universe. |