market capitalization
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- noun
- /ˈmɑrkɪt ˌkæpɪtʃəˈleɪʃən/
- Specialized
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capitalización de mercado
- Investors often look at a company's market capitalization to assess its size and stability in the stock market.
- billion in market capitalization
- stock market capitalization
Examples
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I looked at the ticker today: the market capitalization of Citicorp is $17 billion.
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For example, Apple went from the verge of bankruptcy to having the largest market capitalization of any company.
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Apple just became the company with the largest market capitalization in world history.
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Indeed, their stock market capitalization now tops the stock market capitalization of large U.S. and European banks.
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We then average the results for each day, weighting by market capitalization of the firm.
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A group of the 80 leading renewable energy companies was valued at more than $55 billion in market capitalization in 2006.
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Well, sir, if those assets decrease by just 25% and remain on our books, that loss would be greater than the current market capitalization of this entire company.
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There are 26 listed residential mortgage REITs with a market capitalization of $42.3 billion.
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If one wishes to make SWFS appear large, one can note that the current market capitalization of the S&P 500 is roughly $12 trillion.
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First, the market capitalization of stocks owned by foreigners at the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) increased dramatically over time.
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Synonyms
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The total market value of a company's shares
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Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'market' (the trading environment) combined with 'capitalization' (valuation by market price) yields the total value of a company as traded. Although 'capitalization' is somewhat technical, the noun‑noun combination follows a transparent, predictable logic and is cross‑linguistically common in finance, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Market capitalization creates a simple money picture: in a market, you take the current price of one share and multiply it by all the company's shares, and the word capitalization shows this makes the company’s total worth. That's why 'market capitalization' means the 'total value' of all a company's shares.