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what does market cap (or market capitalization) mean?
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market cap is basically the amount of money that it would cost to buy all of the shares of public stock in a company.  or  share cost * number of outstanding shares. it is a measure of how much a company is worth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/market_capitalization
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