market capitalization

noun

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The world’s most valuable digital currency by total market capitalization fell to $92,500 this afternoon, according to Coinbase data from TradingView. Charles Lloyd Bovaird Ii, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025 Tencent is China’s largest firm by market capitalization and the world’s largest video game company by revenue. Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 7 Jan. 2025 It’s seen its market capitalization decline since then. Ryan Browne, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025 American companies dominate global markets: as of March 2024, nine of the world’s ten largest firms by market capitalization were American; China’s largest firm, Tencent, ranked twenty-sixth. Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 7 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 18 Jan. 2025.

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