Definition of Market capitalization

1. Noun. An estimation of the value of a business that is obtained by multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the current price of a share.

Exact synonyms: Market Capitalisation
Generic synonyms: Capitalisation, Capitalization

Definition of Market capitalization

1. Noun. (finance) The total market value of the equity in a publicly traded entity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Market Capitalization

markers
markes
markest
market
market-garden
market-gardens
market-house
market-oriented
market-research
market analysis
market analyst
market anarchy
market basket
market bell
market capitalisation
market capitalization (current term)
market capitalizations
market cross
market day
market discipline
market economy
market forces
market foreclosure
market foreclosures
market garden
market gardening
market gardens
market jitters
market keeper
market letter

Literary usage of Market capitalization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Profiting from Chaos: Using Chaos Theory for Market Timing, Stock Selection by Tonis Vaga (1994)
"He found that market capitalization (ie, the price of a security times the ... The ratio of book value to market capitalization is another factor that ..."

2. Pensions, Savings and Capital Flows: From Ageing to Emerging Markets by Helmut Reisen (2000)
"Third, we assume that these foreign pension assets will be neutrally weighted along country shares in world stock market capitalization. ..."

3. Cycles of Prosperity and Depression in the United States, Great Britain and by Alvin Harvey Hansen (1921)
"Thus the heightened market capitalization becomes the basis of a greatly extended credit either in the way of orders or formal loans. ..."

4. Financial Markets for the Rest of Us: An Easy Guide to Money, Bonds, Futures by Robert Vahid Hashemian (2001)
"market capitalization/Valuation Here is a good question: How is the size of a company determined? In everyday conversations we talk about large or small or ..."

5. Municipal and Private Operation of Public Utilities: Report to the National by National Civic Federation Commission on Public Ownership and Operation (1907)
"... made it clear that both the face capitalization and the market capitalization of the system are greatly in excess of tangible assets. ..."

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