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Business Definition for: Market Capitalization

  • the total market value of a company, calculated by multiplying the price of its shares on the Stock Exchange by the number of shares outstanding.
  • Abbr. Market Cap

Additional Resources

Calpine Initial Market Capitalization Value Determined
HOUSTON & SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Calpine Corporation (NYSE:CPN) announced today that its "Emergence Date Market Capitalization," calculated pursuant to its amended and restated certificate of incorporation, was approximately $8.6 billion. If, prior to February 1, 2013, Calpine's Market Capitalization declines 35 percent from the Emergence Date Market Capitalization and...
Tags: Calpine Corp., incorporation, market capitalization
Research articles 2008-03-25
Market capitalization.(Departments)(Illustration)
Market capitalization Dollars and number of shares in millions 2004 market ...
Tags: Bed Bath & Beyond, Company, market capitalization, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Research articles 2005-06-13
Market capitalization. (Departments).
Market capitalization Dollars and number of shares in millions 2002 market ...
Tags: Company, J.C. Penney, market capitalization, Sears Roebuck & Co.
Research articles 2003-03-03
KOREA'S COMBINED CAPITALIZATION EQUAL TO 79% OF GENERAL ELECTRIC.
SEOUL, Oct 14 Asia Pulse - The market capitalization of Korean companies listed on the main stock market represents only about 79 per cent of the market capitalization of General Electric GE, the Korea Stock Exchange said Monday. SEOUL, Oct 14 Asia Pulse -...
Tags: General Electric Co., market capitalization
Research articles 2002-10-14
The Determinants of Appraisal-Based Capitalization Rates
The article asserts that in traded securities markets, the single most revealing statistic about how an asset is viewed is the ratio of price to earnings PE. Higher PE’s signal greater expected growth and less uncertainty, while lower PE’s imply the reverse. The findings of this paper point to three...
Tags: Finance, Financial Services, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Operational Accounting, Capitalization Rate, Appraisal, Article
White papers 2001-03-01
ZixCorp Meets $50 Million Market Cap Requirement
DALLAS -- Zix Corporation (ZixCorp([R])), (Nasdaq:ZIXI), the leader in hosted services for email encryption and e-prescribing, announced today that it has received a notice from the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department, which states that the company has achieved re-compliance with the $50 million market capitalization requirement set forth in Nasdaq Marketplace...
Tags: market capitalization, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
Research articles 2006-10-27
Navigators to Join the NASDAQ Financial-100 Index
NEW YORK -- The Navigators Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NAVG) announced today that it will be added to the NASDAQ Financial-100 Index prior to the opening of the market on Thursday, July 26, 2007. The NASDAQ Financial-100 Index includes 100 of the largest domestic and international financial companies listed on The NASDAQ...
Tags: Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Netscape Navigator
Research articles 2007-07-25
Hamburger Hamlet stock loses its Nasdaq listing - delisted from Nasdaq Small Capitalization Market - Brief Article
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. -- Problems at financially troubled Hamburger Hamlet Restaurants Inc. continued to mount with the June 26 delisting of the company's stock from the Nasdaq Small Capitalization Market. The operator of 19 gourmet-burger units filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in December.
Tags: Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., stock
Research articles 1996-07-08
Industrial Funding to voluntarily terminate its listing on the Nasdaq Small Capitalization Market
PORTLAND, Ore.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 28, 1995--Industrial Funding Corp. (NASDAQ:IFDCA) today announced it will voluntarily terminate its listing on the Nasdaq Small Capitalization Market at the end of the trading day on Oct. 2.
Tags: Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
Research articles 1995-09-28
Equilibrium Insurance Pricing, Market Value of Liabilities & Optimal Value of Market Capitalization
This paper reviews an insurance pricing model for a simple one period economy with shares in productive firms, insurance firm?s real estate. The paper considers the valuation of insurance firm?s liabilities in the model and in the optimal capitalization of the firm. The relationship of the results to standard financial...
Tags: Corporate Insurance, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Insurance, Finance, University Of New South Wales, Market Capitalization
White papers 2003-06-05
The Reaction Of Multifamily Capitalization Rates To Natural Disasters
Paper contains the study to analyze the effect of the Northridge Earthquake on capitalization rates in the multifamily building market in Los Angeles, California. The results indicate that the Northridge Earthquake had a negative impact and overall capitalization rates rose. This negative effect, however, was not uniform over the entire...
Tags: Capitalization, Effect, California State University
White papers 2003-01-01
Thin Capitalization - Australian Banks With Foreign Operations
According to this report, Australian banks with offshore operations need to review their funding to ensure that they will not be denied tax deductions for interest expenses under Australia's new thin capitalization rules. Australia's new 'thin capitalization' regime consists of a variety of targeted rules that apply to different kinds...
Tags: Finance, Taxes, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Capitalization, Australia
White papers 2002-02-01
Milacron Notified by NYSE of Continued Listing Standards
CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Milacron Inc. (NYSE: MZ), a leading global supplier of plastics-processing technologies and industrial fluids, today announced it has been notified by the New York Stock Exchange that it is not in compliance with the NYSE's continued listing standard relating to minimum market capitalization. This standard requires that...
Tags: New York Stock Exchange
Research articles 2007-09-21
Does market capitalization misclassify the top European companies?
The main league table in the Financial Times European Top 500 is ranked in order of market capitalization which tends to favour companies where finance is mainly dominated by equity share capital, particularly the UK. A broader evaluation could be gained The main league table in the Financial Times European...
Tags: Financial Times, market capitalization
Research articles 1998-04-01
IDT joins the Nasdaq-100 Index; Market Capitalization and Strong End Market Opportunity Drives Addition
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Tags: IDT Corp., market capitalization
Research articles 2002-01-07
Potash Corp. Poised to Double Market Capitalization
FP Trading Desk submits: Despite some near term hiccups based on ongoing labour uncertainty and market volatility, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. POT is still poised to more than double its market capitalization to a whopping C$130-billion sometime over the next year, according to Canaccord Adams analyst Keith Carpenter....
Tags: Materials/Industrials
External links 2008-09-01
Is Microsoft Now Number One?
Is it a simple case of market-cap envy, or is the current method of calculating a company's market capitalization-that is, without stock options-out of date and overdue for change?
Tags: Microsoft Corp.
Research articles 1998-09-01
STOCK SLIDE PUTS SEARS ON THE HOOK: AS MARKET CAP DIPS, IS RETAILER TAKEOVER BAIT?(Statistical Data Included)
The Big Store seems a bit small these days. Consider that Sears, Roebuck and Co. shares have lost nearly a quarter of their value in just the past five weeks -- shaving $3.3 billion off its market capitalization. Once the...
Tags: market capitalization, Sears Roebuck & Co., stock
Research articles 1999-10-04
Broker consolidation leads to survival of the biggest.(Column)
It wasn't much over a decade ago that the largest U.S. corporations, based on market capitalization, were IBM, AT&T, Exxon and GM. I'm not sure if that was the exact order, but I am sure that none of these are at the very...
Tags: acquisition, agency, Aon Corp., Marsh
Research articles 1997-04-07
Reconnected to Growth: Global Telecommunications Industry Index 2005
The report is part of an ongoing research program dedicated to understanding dynamic markets and informing decision makers in an increasingly complex environment. The report is fundamentally based on market capitalization; the most comprehensive and inclusive measure of an industry's long term value. Because it is derived from share price...
Tags: Market Capitalization, Revenue, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Telecommunications, Performance Management, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
White papers 2005-03-24
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