Market Capitalization [MCAP]
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Categories: Cryptocurrency
Synonyms:
Market Cap
Total capitalization of a cryptocurrency’s price. It is one of the ways to rank the relative size of a cryptocurrency. *see Circulating Supply.
Market Capitalization (Wikipedia)
Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.
The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, the world's largest stock exchange in terms of total market capitalization of its listed companies
Market capitalization is equal to the market price per common share multiplied by the number of common shares outstanding. Since outstanding stock is bought and sold in public markets, capitalization could be used as an indicator of public opinion of a company's net worth and is a determining factor in some forms of stock valuation.
