Market Capitalization

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Market capitalization, or market cap, is a measurement of corporate or economic wealth (economics) equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a public company. As owning Share (finance) represents Corporate governance the company, including all its assets, capitalization could represent the public opinion of a company's net worth and is a determining factor in stock valuation. Likewise, the capitalization of stock markets or macroeconomicss may be compared to other economic indicators. The global market capitalization was $51.225 trillion in March 2007 Global stock values top $50 trln: industry data (Reuters), indicating a dominant force in the global economy.

Valuation Market capitalization represents the public consensus on the value of a company. A corporation, including all of its assets, may be freely bought and sold through purchases and sales of stock, which will determine the price of the company's shares. Its market capitalization is this share price multiplied by the number of shares in issue, providing a total value for the company's shares and thus for the company as a whole.

Many companies have a dominant shareholder, typically a government or a family. Most stockmarket indices (Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, Bombay Stock Exchange, FTSE 100 Index, DAX, Nikkei 225, MSCI Barra) adjust for these by working on a "free float" basis, ie the market cap is the value of the publicly tradable part of the company.

Note that market capitalization is a market estimate of a company's value, based on perceived future prospects, economic and monetary conditions, and therefore largely independent of a company's history. Stock prices can also be moved by speculation about changes in expectations about profits or about mergers and acquisitions.

It is possible for stock markets to get caught up in an economic bubble, like the "dotcom mania", and excess speculation, like any asset class such as gold or real estate. In such events, it is normal for companies to become valued on past momentum extrapolated into the future plus justified by a convincing story as well as success, until it goes wrong and the world mean-reverts, causing significant losses. Conversely, stock markets will usually be the primary transmission mechanism for most of the pleasant surprises that occur in the world's economy.

Capitalized value is a Synonym phrase of market capitalization.

Categorization of companies by capitalization Smaller companies tend to be financial risk investments and have higher growth potential. The order of magnitude of the capitalization may be used as investor's shorthand for the associated risk, and serves as a handy way to classify companies in general:

Micro-Cap: capitalization below $250 million.
Small-Cap: capitalization between approximately $250 million and $1 billion
Mid-Cap: capitalization between approximately $1 billion and $10 billion
Large-Cap or Blue chip (stock market): capitalization over approximately $10 billion