If you are new to investing, you have likely seen the term market capitalization while looking up stocks. It often appears ...

Two of the most common ways of assessing a company’s value are market capitalization and equity (also known as shareholder equity). Each term describes a different way of looking at a company’s value.

When financial analysts talk about the biggest or most valuable publicly-traded companies in the world, they mean the companies that have the largest market capitalization. Called market cap for short ...

With a market capitalization of $2.89 trillion as of April 9, Microsoft is the world’s second-largest company by that measure — just behind Apple. But market cap only tells part of the story. To get a ...

Market cap of 100 most valuable companies hit record $54.4 trillion end of 2025. US tech stocks like Nvidia dominate.

Learn how to make sense of key crypto metrics—so you can read the market, not just watch the price. Meagan is a former Series 7 financial advisor and current writer focused on blending straightforward ...

Yesterday, Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) became the first company to surpass a $4 trillion market capitalization. The AI chip giant did so on the strength of its position in the artificial intelligence race ...