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capitalization

[kap-i-tl-uh-zay-shuhn] / ˌkæp ɪ tl əˈzeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
capital
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The 10 largest stocks in the S&P 500 now account for roughly 40% of the index’s total market capitalization.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Tesla has a roughly $1.48 trillion market capitalization, while SpaceX is worth about $2 trillion.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

An additional vulnerability Panigirtzoglou perceives is the assets under management of leveraged memory ETFs, relative to the market capitalization of the underlying stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

The iPhone-maker’s shares closed at a record, just enough to push the company’s market capitalization into territory that only chip colossus Nvidia occupies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Punctuation, together with other graphical indicators such as italics, capitalization, and spacing, developed over the history of printed language to do two things.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The S&P 500 is weighted by companies’ market value, which means shares of companies with higher market capitalizations have more influence than those with lower market caps.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Smaller builders are trading near or below book value, and all have relatively small market capitalizations.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

The market capitalizations of Best Buy, Lululemon and Wayfair are all below that threshold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

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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