market capitalization

noun

variants or market cap

plural market capitalizations or market caps

: the dollar value of a company's outstanding shares of stock that is calculated by multiplying the total number of available shares by the current stock price and that is used in estimating a company's value

With a market capitalization of around $36 billion this week, dogecoin is the original and most valuable meme coin …

—Lisa Bonos

The stock opened at 17. … By afternoon it dropped to 12¼. … The company lost $23 million in market capitalization in one day.

—William Cobb

… a publicly traded hospitality giant with a market cap topping $40.2 billion …

—Daniel J. Sernovitz

Examples of market capitalization in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Around this time, Biogen’s market capitalization rose by twenty-nine billion dollars over the course of three months. — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

But there’s still a long way to go — both in Capri’s market capitalization and its business reinvention. — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026

Despite attracting scrutiny comparable to that directed at Big Tech, Live Nation’s market capitalization is a fraction of Google’s. — Davis Noell, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

Mega-cap companies are generally defined as those with market capitalizations exceeding $200 billion. — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1931, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for market capitalization

• deindustrialization
• immunoprecipitation
• individualisation
• individualization
• institutionalisation
• institutionalization
• internationalization
• neovascularization
• operationalization
• abbreviation
• abomination
• acceleration