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capitalization

[kap-i-tl-uh-zey-shuhn] / ˌkæp ɪ tl əˈzeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
capital
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Bismarck, N.D.-based Knife River KNF -7.86%decrease; down pointing triangle has a market capitalization of about $3 billion, with its stock down nearly 30% this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

AMD shares finished the day at $615.52, translating to a market capitalization of $1 trillion.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Five years after that, sales passed $5 billion, and the company’s market capitalization jumped to an incredible $8 billion—up 250x from its debut a decade earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Turkey’s stock market is a relative minnow compared with larger, developed markets, with a total market capitalization of around $400 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“A bank with a market capitalization of one billion dollars might have one trillion dollars’ worth of credit default swaps outstanding.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The S&P 500 is weighted by companies’ market capitalizations, which means the index is nearly 40% concentrated in its largest 10 components.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

To be included in the baskets, the stocks must have market capitalizations of more than $1 billion and trade with liquid U.S. listings.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Shares of Nvidia, which remains the largest company market capitalizations, are trading about 5% lower than the day Burry announced his short.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Because the Dow is a price-weighted index—meaning individual stock prices rather than market capitalizations determine the weighting of each company—few funds choose to replicate its composition.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

I'm agin' these big capitalizations, and that's just why I asked you for the information.

From Loaded Dice by Ellery H. Clark




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