what is market capitalization 
market capitalization refers to the total dollar value of a company s outstanding shares you can easily calculate this figure by multiplying the price of one share by the total number of shares outstanding the bottom lineovercapitalization is when a company s capital is worth more than its total assets it has more debt and equity than the value of its assets an overcapitalized company has a market value less than its total capitalized value or current value and may end up paying more in interest and dividend payments than it can sustain in the long term 