What does market cap mean?

Question

What does market cap mean?

Answer 1

Shares x price

It's short for Market Capitalization

Answer 2

Stock price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding.

Answer 3

"Market capitalization/capitalisation (aka market cap, mkt cap or capitalized/capitalised value) is a measurement of corporate or economic size equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a public company.

As owning stock represents owning the company, including all its assets, capitalization could represent the public opinion of a company's net worth and is a determining factor in stock valuation. Likewise, the capitalization of stock markets or economic regions may be compared to other economic indicators.

The total market capitalization of all publicly traded companies in the world was US$51.2 trillion in July 2008."

Answer 4

current market price X paid up share ( quantity) of the company