market capitalization

noun

Examples of market capitalization in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The latter company was far bigger in every metric (annual revenue, for example, was $27 billion vs. $5 billion) except for one: market capitalization, which is the value Wall Street put on each of the company’s shares. Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024 In the process, its market capitalization has surpassed the size of the Danish economy, French luxury conglomerate LVMH and, now, even Tesla. Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 8 Mar. 2024 Shares in the pharmaceutical giant rose jumped more than 8% Thursday, pushing its market capitalization to $609 billion, about $40 billion more than Tesla’s valuation. Anna Cooban, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024 Novo Nordisk stock surged Thursday morning, reaching an all-time high and surpassing Tesla’s market capitalization. Bruce Gil, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024 The Special Case Of The Trillion Dollar Winners Within the first group of firms, there is the special case of the six firms that currently have more than one trillion dollars in market capitalization, namely: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Steve Denning, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 The larger a stock’s market capitalization (its stock price times the number of shares outstanding), the greater the fund’s percentage of the index is. Moneyshow, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 Spirit had a market capitalization of about $3.3 billion before the Wall Street Journal first reported on a potential sale. Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024 With $239 billion in market capitalization and rights to the wildly popular Indian Premier League cricket matches, Reliance is a juggernaut in the media landscape in India. Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of market capitalization was in 1975

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“Market capitalization.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/market%20capitalization. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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