market capitalization

1. 1.

   an estimation of the value of a business that is obtained by multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the current price of a share

   Synonymsmarket capitalisation

   Broadercapitalization

Questions about market capitalization

What does market capitalization mean?

market capitalization means "an estimation of the value of a business that is obtained by multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the current price of a share".

What is another word for market capitalization?

Close synonyms include market capitalisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is market capitalization a common word?

market capitalization is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.