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Market capitalization represents the total market value of a publicly traded company
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Market capitalization is standardly defined in financial literature and reference texts as the total market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares.

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Wikipedia: Market capitalization
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Alpha Books: 10 minute guide to the stock market
1997 · cited by 0
States that market capitalization represents the dollar-value of a corporation.
Prentice Hall Canada: Common sense investing in real estate investment trusts
1998 · cited by 0
Defines market capitalization as the total market value of a company.
Vintage Books: The 21st century economy
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States a publicly traded company's market capitalization is its market value.
Vintage Books: The 21st century economy : a beginner's guide : with 101 easy-to-learn tools for surviving and thriving in the new global marketplace
2009 · cited by 0
States a publicly traded company's market capitalization represents its market value.
Times Books: The biotech investor : how to profit from the coming boom in biotechnology
2003 · cited by 0
Explains market cap as the total value of all outstanding shares.
OpenAIRE: TURNOVER AND MARKET VALUE IN CAPITAL MARKETS FROM EUROPEAN UNION
2012 · cited by 0
States market capitalization represents share price times shares outstanding.
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  1. Wikipedia: Market capitalizationreferencesame source L1supports
  2. Wikipedia: Exchange-traded fundreferencesame source L1no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. Book: Corporate Financereferencesame source L2no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Book: Stock Investing For Dummies®referencesame source L2no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Book: Accountants' Handbook, 2 Volume Setreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Book: The New York Times 2003 almanacreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. Alpha Books: 10 minute guide to the stock marketreferencesupports
  8. Prentice Hall Canada: Common sense investing in real estate investment trustsreferencesupports
  9. Vintage Books: The 21st century economyreferencesame source L7supports
  10. Vintage Books: The 21st century economy : a beginner's guide : with 101 easy-to-learn tools for surviving and thriving in the new global marketplacereferencesame source L7supports
  11. Cambridge Business Publishers: Corporate valuation : theory, evidence & practicereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. McGraw-Hill/Irwin: Foundations of financial managementreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. Probus: The world's emerging stock markets : structure, developments, regulations & opportunitiesreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. Times Books: The biotech investor : how to profit from the coming boom in biotechnologyreferencesupports
  15. Wikisource: The Theory of Business Enterprise/Chapter 6referencesame source L12no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. Wikisource: The New York Times/1929/10/24/Prices of Stocks Crash in Heavy Liquidationreferencesame source L12no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  17. Wikisource: The Theory of Business Enterprise/Chapter 7referencesame source L12no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  18. OpenAIRE: TURNOVER AND MARKET VALUE IN CAPITAL MARKETS FROM EUROPEAN UNIONpeer-reviewedsupports
  19. OpenAIRE: Market Capitalization as a Percentage of GDP in the Global Innovation Indexpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  20. OpenAIRE: The Bitcoin & Blockchain Economic Value & Capital Structurepeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  21. OpenAIRE: Does a Consistently Capitalized R&D Ratio Improve Information Effects of Capitalized Development Expenditures?peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  22. OpenAIRE: USE OF CORRELATION AND REGRESSION ANALYSIS FOR THE CRYPTOASSETS’ PRICE MODELING IN ACCOUNTING AND CONTROLpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  23. OpenAIRE: Essays on Banking, Credit Risk, and Debt Marketspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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