How to Calculate a Company’s Weighted Average Number of Outstanding Shares The Motley Fool
Suppose that Sample Company had 100,000 shares of common stock outstanding on 1 January 2021, that 20,000 shares were issued for cash on April 1, 2021, and that 12,000 shares were retired on 1 September 2021. The below table shows the weighted averages shares outstanding calculation in a tabular format. In case there is a …