how do you calculate market cap 
market cap or market capitalization is calculated by taking a company s outstanding shares and multiplying them by the company s share price for example if a company had 50 000 shares outstanding and a share price of 10 its market cap would be 500 000 the bottom linefree float methodology is a method of calculating a company s market cap by removing its locked in shares it is used by index providers in order to present a more accurate picture of a company s available shares for trading 