Please answer the given financial question based on the context.
Context: part ii item 5 . market for registrant 2019s common equity , related stockholder matters and issuer purchases of equity securities our class a common stock trades on the new york stock exchange under the symbol 201cma 201d . at february 8 , 2019 , we had 73 stockholders of record for our class a common stock . we believe that the number of beneficial owners is substantially greater than the number of record holders because a large portion of our class a common stock is held in 201cstreet name 201d by brokers . there is currently no established public trading market for our class b common stock . there were approximately 287 holders of record of our non-voting class b common stock as of february 8 , 2019 , constituting approximately 1.1% ( 1.1 % ) of our total outstanding equity . stock performance graph the graph and table below compare the cumulative total stockholder return of mastercard 2019s class a common stock , the s&p 500 financials and the s&p 500 index for the five-year period ended december 31 , 2018 . the graph assumes a $ 100 investment in our class a common stock and both of the indices and the reinvestment of dividends . mastercard 2019s class b common stock is not publicly traded or listed on any exchange or dealer quotation system . total returns to stockholders for each of the years presented were as follows : indexed returns base period for the years ended december 31 .
|company/index|base period 2013|base period 2014|base period 2015|base period 2016|base period 2017|2018|
|mastercard|$ 100.00|$ 103.73|$ 118.05|$ 126.20|$ 186.37|$ 233.56|
|s&p 500 financials|100.00|115.20|113.44|139.31|170.21|148.03|
|s&p 500 index|100.00|113.69|115.26|129.05|157.22|150.33|
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Question: as of february 8 , 2019 what was the number of shares outstanding
Answer:
260.90909