Sprint Nextel Stock Split History
Sprint Nextel common stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Monday, August 15, 2005, under the ticker symbol 'S'. Holders of Nextel common stock received 1.26750218 shares of Sprint Nextel common stock and $0.84629198 in cash in exchange for each share of Nextel common stock. S split history Sprint Nextel Corporation. SC split history Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc. STCK split history Stock Building Supply Holdings Inc.
In the latest look at the underlying components of the S&P 500 ordered by largest market capitalization, Sprint Nextel Corp () has taken over the #187 spot from Becton, Dickinson and Co. (), according to. Market capitalization is an important data point for investors to keep an eye on, for various reasons. The most basic reason is that it gives a true comparison of the value attributed by the stock market to a given company’s stock.
Many beginning investors look at one stock trading at $10 and another trading at $20 and mistakenly think the latter company is worth twice as much — that of course is a completely meaningless comparison without knowing how many shares of each company exist. But comparing market capitalization (factoring in those share counts) creates a true “apples-to-apples” comparison of the value of two stocks. In the case of Sprint Nextel Corp (), the market cap is now $18.70 billion, versus Becton, Dickinson and Co. () at $18.54 billion.
Below is a chart of Sprint Nextel Corp versus Becton, Dickinson and Co. Plotting their respective size rank within the S&P 500 over time (S plotted in blue; BDX plotted in green): Below is a three month price history chart comparing the stock performance of S vs. BDX: Another reason market capitalization is important is where it places a company in terms of its size tier in relation to peers — much like the way a mid-size sedan is typically compared to other mid-size sedans (and not SUV’s). This can have a direct impact on which mutual funds and ETFs are willing to own the stock. For instance, a mutual fund that is focused solely on Large Cap stocks may for example only be interested in those companies sized $10 billion or larger. Another illustrative example is the S&P MidCap index which essentially takes the S&P 500 index and “tosses out” the biggest 100 companies so as to focus solely on the 400 smaller “up-and-comers” (which in the right environment can outperform their larger rivals). So a company’s market cap, especially in relation to other companies, carries great importance, and for this reason we at find value to putting together these rankings daily.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, S and BDX collectively make up 1.92% of the which is higher by about 0.4% on the day Thursday. At the closing bell, S is up about 2.8%, while BDX is up about 0.5% on the day Thursday.
About Sprint Sprint is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. Is a communications company providing wireless and wireline communications products and services to consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers.
Sprint Nextel Stock Split History
Sprint Nextel Stock Price History
Has two segments: Wireless, which provides wireless services on a postpaid and prepaid payment basis to retail subscribers and also on a wholesale basis, including the sale of wireless services that utilize Co.' S network but are sold under the wholesaler's brand; and Wireline, which provides wireline voice and data communication services to other communications companies and business subscribers, as well as voice, data and internet protocol communication services. According to our S split history records, Sprint has had 1 split. Sprint (S) has 1 split in our S split history database. The split for S took place on July 18, 1977. This was a 2 for 1 split, meaning for each share of S owned pre-split, the shareholder now owned 2 shares.