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capitalization

[kap-i-tl-uh-zay-shuhn] / ˌkæp ɪ tl əˈzeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
capital
Synonyms


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That demand has made Nvidia the world's most valuable company by market capitalization and turned chief executive Jensen Huang into AI's kingmaker.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Shares of ExxonMobil, the largest U.S. oil-and-natural gas company by market capitalization, rose 2.2% to $187.25.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Stocks declined as a revenue shortfall from the Google parent caused one of the largest one-session market capitalization drops for a single company on record, feeding doubts about the payoff from artificial-intelligence infrastructure spending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Shares closed down 2 cents on Wednesday to $2.66, giving the company a market capitalization of $403 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

The strategists recommend quality stocks with large market capitalizations, adopters of artificial intelligence and the S&P 500 over international stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

The S&P 500 is weighted by companies’ market capitalizations, which means the index is nearly 40% concentrated in its largest 10 components.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

The electric letters glow white against a black wall, their message spelled out with odd capitalizations, in Ms. Emin’s distinctive, sloping script.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Because the Dow is a price-weighted index—meaning stock prices rather than market capitalizations determine the weighting of each company—few funds choose to replicate its composition.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

I'm agin' these big capitalizations, and that's just why I asked you for the information.

From Loaded Dice by Ellery H. Clark


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