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Year World market cap Number of listed companies Millions of US$ % of GDP; 1975 1,149,245 27.2 14,577 1980 2,525,736 29.6 17,273 1985 4,684,978 47.0 20,555
The following is a list of publicly traded companies having the greatest market capitalization, sometimes described as their "market value": [1]. Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the share price on a selected day and the number of outstanding shares on that day.
In 1995, the shares were consolidated at a ratio of 125 to 1. At the time, five bearer shares were worth 0.8% of a post-consolidation share. In June 1997, the consolidated shares were subject to a compulsory buy-out at $70 each ($0.56 per bearer share) as part of a privatization transaction by the Jim Pattison Group .
The stock price of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, rose 2.5% even with China’s antitrust investigation. The company released its latest earnings report after trading ended for the day.
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Market cap is given by the formula =, where MC is the market capitalization, N is the number of common shares outstanding, and P is the market price per common share. [ 2 ] For example, if a company has 4 million common shares outstanding and the closing price per share is $20, its market capitalization is then $80 million.
Stock indexes closed mostly lower Tuesday as the market delivered a downbeat finish on the final day of another milestone-shattering year on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0 ...