big cap

noun

: a company with a relatively high stock market capitalization value

also : the stock of such a company

We are now coming off a 13-year period—the longest ever—when every single year big caps have bettered their position over small caps compared with the year before.

—Ken Fisher, The Making of a Market Guru, 2010

—often used before another noun

big cap stocks

… with the big cap market treading water, the small cap market is positively listless.

—Susan Lee, Forbes, 5 Nov. 1984

Word History

First Known Use

1983, in the meaning defined above

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