Imagine a company’s share price is higher than its competitor. the company has lesser shares than the competitor can lesser number of shares be a reason for higher price ?
There is no obvious implied or intrinsic correlation between share price and number of shares when comparing companies. The share price of a company is dependent on the valuation or participants in an open, active market and is based on information such as price earnings ratio, dividends, revenue, profit, market share, etc…….