market capitalization

noun

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At one point, the rally gave the company a market capitalization of nearly $30 billion, surpassing the market cap of legacy media companies such as Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox Corp. Newsmax’s swift retreat WATCHLIST+ Chart Line chart with 215 data points. Yun Li, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2025 Palantir went public in 2020 and now has a market capitalization of nearly $200 billion. Jabari Young, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025 That would give Newsmax a market capitalization just shy of Warner Bros. Discovery, the media conglomerate that owns CNN. Shares then plummeted by 40 percent on Wednesday morning, and were trading around $125 by midday—still some 12 times the IPO price. Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025 Newsmax, the conservative media company, went public on Monday, with shares surging more than 700% in its first day on the New York Stock Exchange, giving it a market capitalization of more than $10 billion. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for market capitalization

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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 15 Apr. 2025.

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