Enterprise & Equity Value
Do treasury shares count toward shares outstanding when you compute equity value?
Model answer
No. Shares outstanding = shares issued minus treasury shares. Treasury stock is stock the company has repurchased and holds itself; a company cannot have an economic claim on itself, so those shares…
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