How to Use market capitalization in a Sentence

market capitalization

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  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even with this week’s declines, Nvidia boasts a market capitalization of about $1.7 trillion.
    — Carmen Reinicke, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In the past two months, Nvidia has seen its market capitalization increase by basically the entire worth of Tesla.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Before Nike’s latest earnings call, its shares had shed about 23% year to date, or about $44 billion in market capitalization.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
  • But in another way, the future of Lilly, now the biggest drug company by market capitalization, hung in the balance.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Nio is ranked third in China in terms of EV stock attractiveness, with a market capitalization of $13 billion.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 12 June 2023
  • Microsoft is the second-largest company in the S&P 500 by market capitalization, so its moves have a heavy influence on the performance of the broad U.S. stock market.
    — Karen Langley, WSJ, 14 July 2023
  • Search has fueled the company’s growth to a more than $1.7 trillion market capitalization.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Once boasting a market capitalization of more than $1 trillion last year, Meta is now valued at about $250 billion.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The huge gains mean that these big tech stocks have become bloated in some indexes, which are often weighted by market capitalization.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 14 July 2023
  • The market capitalization as of Friday’s trading close is about $100 million.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • About $3 billion was wiped off of the company’s market capitalization when shares fell after the unveiling.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Shares of 16 of the largest 20 companies by market capitalization finished in the red, with only property trust Goodman and a trio of utility providers gaining ground.
    — WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Tech stocks are in freefall Since the beginning of this year, Zoom has lost about half of its market capitalization—dropping from $54 billion to $27 billion alongside a declining stock market.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 16 May 2022
  • At that valuation, Alameda’s holdings would have been worth more than the tokens’ $3.4 billion market capitalization at the time.
    — Patricia Kowsmann, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Its market capitalization has since grown to around $353 million, according to MarketWatch — less than 1 percent the size of Target.
    — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
  • Since Amazon is over 20% of the total market capitalization of the sector, its results have an outsized influence on the industry.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • The company now has a market capitalization of just $422 million.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • At its recent low, Bed Bath & Beyond’s market capitalization was $148 million, and even that seemed to be supported mainly by meme stock logic.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The most popular is Tether, which has a market capitalization over $70 billion.
    — Ken Sweet, ajc, 16 June 2022
  • The stock touched a low below 5 francs in mid-July, and its market capitalization has fallen below 14 billion Swiss francs, Refinitiv data showed.
    — Reuters, CNN, 27 July 2022
  • That investigation made the firm a poster child for Beijing's crackdown on tech companies, and wiped tens of billions of dollars from its market capitalization.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 23 May 2022

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