Megacap stocks are stocks with a
capitalization
Capitalization ( North American spelling; also British spelling in Oxford) or capitalisation (Commonwealth English; all other meanings) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in ...
or
market value
Market value or OMV (open market valuation) is the price at which an asset would trade in a competitive auction setting. Market value is often used interchangeably with ''open market value'', ''fair value'' or '' fair market value'', although t ...
over $200 billion. In business and investing the
market capitalization
Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.
Market capitalization is equal to the market price per common share multiplied by ...
term megacap stock is also referred to as mega-cap in the United States. The companies are the largest
publicly traded companies
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange ( ...
in the world. Capitalization is the total value of the
outstanding common shares owned by stockholders. Stocks under $200 billion are
Large cap stocks. Megacap stocks are listed on the
NASDAQ Capital Market or
American Stock Exchange (AMEX). Market caps term may be different outside the United States.
Megacap stocks peaked over trillion-dollars
Megacap stocks over $200 billion
Mega cap stocks that are over $200 billion in the second quarter of 2023.
See also
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Large-cap $10 billion and $200 billion
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Mid-cap $2 billion and $10 billion
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Small-cap
A small cap company is a company whose market capitalization ( shares x value of each share) is considered small. In the United States, this includes market caps from $250 million to $2 billion (as of 2022).
Overview
A small cap company typicall ...
$250 million to $2 billion
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Micro-cap: $50 million to $250 million
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Nano-cap
In business and investing, term microcap stock (also micro-cap) refers to the stock of public companies in the United States which have a market capitalization of roughly $50 million to $250 million. The shares of companies with a market capitali ...
Less than $50 million
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List of public corporations by market capitalization
The following is a list of publicly traded companies having the greatest market capitalization, sometimes described as their "market value":
Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the share price on a selected day and the number of ...
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Market price
A price is the (usually not negative) quantity of payment or compensation expected, required, or given by one party to another in return for goods or services. In some situations, especially when the product is a service rather than a phy ...
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Authorised capital
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Treasury stock
A treasury stock or reacquired stock is stock which is bought back by the issuing company, reducing the amount of outstanding stock on the open market ("open market" including insiders' holdings).
Stock repurchases are used as a tax efficien ...
References
External links
Year-end market capitalization by country– World Bank, 1988–2018
Publicly traded companies
Business terms
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