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Market Cap

The total market value of a company's shares.

Market capitalisation is share price multiplied by total shares outstanding. It's the standard way to size a company and the basis for bucketing stocks into small-, mid-, and large-cap.

The formula

Share Price×Shares Outstanding
= Market Cap

Why it matters

  • —Size correlates with liquidity, index inclusion, and (loosely) volatility — smaller caps tend to swing harder.
  • —A useful denominator for other metrics, like dividend yield or FCF yield.
  • —Doesn't account for debt — for that, see Enterprise Value (used in EV/EBITDA).

How to read it

< $2BSmall-cap — higher risk and reward, less liquid
$2B–$10BMid-cap
> $10BLarge-cap — typically more stable, more liquid

Largest companies in our coverage

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#CompanySectorMarket Cap
1NVIDIA CORPNVDATechnology$5.57T
2Alphabet Inc.GOOGLCommunication Services$4.26T
3MICROSOFT CORPORATIONMSFTTechnology$3.88T
4AMAZON COM INCAMZNConsumer Cyclical$2.74T
5Meta Platforms, Inc.METACommunication Services$1.84T
6Broadcom Inc.AVGOTechnology$1.72T
7Bitcoin USDBTC-USD—$1.65T
8Tesla, Inc.TSLAConsumer Cyclical$1.48T
9BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INCBRK-BFinancial Services$1.09T
10ELI LILLY AND COMPANYLLYHealthcare$1.04T

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