market capitalization

noun

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Over this span, the stock has rallied roughly 17%, as of Tuesday’s close, and added more than $275 billion in market capitalization. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 12 Feb. 2025 The online retailer famously founded by Jeff Bezos in his garage during the 1990s has long led Walmart in market capitalization but hadn’t passed Walmart in earnings. Kevin Williams, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2025 The sell-off has coincided with almost every major cryptocurrency seeing a loss in value, with the total market capitalization shrinking by about 8 percent in a single day, according to CoinDesk. David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025 Follow the money: Nvidia closed Thursday with a market capitalization north of $3 trillion, putting it comfortably in the top three most valuable companies in the world. Felix Salmon, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for market capitalization 

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 22 Feb. 2025.

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