How to Use market capitalization in a Sentence

market capitalization

noun
  • It’s made up of the 20 largest U.S. stocks by market capitalization.
    Krysta Escobar, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
  • It’s the most valuable car maker in the world with a market capitalization of more than $1 trillion.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • In the course of a two-day streak, the market capitalization of Robinhood went from $18 billion to $57 billion—a boost that made up for a somewhat tame IPO.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The crash wiped out roughly $60 billion in market capitalization from across the two coins.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 31 May 2022
  • The stock trades with a market capitalization of more than $6 billion.
    Rebecca Picciotto, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The larger a stock’s market capitalization (its stock price times the number of shares outstanding), the greater the fund’s percentage of the index is.
    Moneyshow, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The gains have helped drive up the country’s market capitalization-to-GDP ratio, which is expected to reach an all-time peak of 188% this year.
    Rainer Michael Preiss, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Trump Media closed out its first trading day of the week with a market capitalization of $4.85 billion.
    Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
  • At this price the group has a market capitalization close to $46 billion (€39 billion).
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The crash over the past two days has wiped out $2 billion in market capitalization alone, leaving the company worth just $3.7 billion.
    Diksha Madhok, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In total, the group has lost more than $51 billion in market capitalization.
    Harish Pullanoor, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Doha Bank is one of Qatar’s largest lenders with a market capitalization of $2.2 billion.
    Dana Khraiche, Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2022
  • On the day of our call, Yandex had a $16 billion market capitalization on Nasdaq, and about 85 percent of all its shares were traded in the United States.
    Paul Starobin, Wired, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Last month, Destiny’s share price soared, with the fund hitting a market capitalization of over $1 billion.
    Erin Griffith, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • While not a small cap, at $8.7 billion in market capitalization, this mid-cap has long been a favorite of value investors.
    Hank Tucker, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • Fueled by a boom in demand for its AI chips, the company briefly hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion in late May.
    Laura He, CNN, 29 June 2023
  • In some ways, Tesla—the world’s most valuable automaker by market capitalization—set the whole thing in motion.
    WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Given the decline in its stock price over the recent years, the company’s market capitalization has shrunk to just $7 billion.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The two largest oil and gas companies based on market capitalization in 2021 are ExxonMobil and Chevron.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Just over two weeks later, the stock is up over 50%, giving the company a market capitalization of $17 billion.
    Vijay Gurbaxani, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • To be sure, Trump Media continues to maintain a heady market capitalization for a business that's in the red and that booked just $4.1 million in revenue last year.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • That company, based in Grants Pass, now has a market capitalization of more than $12 million.
    oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Since April 25, Twitter shares have lost more than a quarter of their value, and the company now has a market capitalization of less than $30 billion.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 6 June 2022
  • Getting into the car business is not cheap — but Sony has plenty of cash to burn, with a market capitalization of nearly $160 billion.
    Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Netflix is now more valuable than Disney to Wall Street, in terms of market capitalization.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The company’s market capitalization — the value of all shares — has dropped from about $3 billion to $1.3 billion.
    Christopher Keating, courant.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Shares of Peloton have tumbled more than 80 percent over the past year, giving it a market capitalization of a little over $9 billion.
    New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Even with this week’s declines, Nvidia boasts a market capitalization of about $1.7 trillion.
    Carmen Reinicke, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • After Tuesday's stock gains, Trump Media now sports a market capitalization of $10.3 billion.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Valued at around $500 billion, the group is now Europe’s biggest company by market capitalization.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 4 Nov. 2024

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