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Books-A-Million: A book retailer whose stock price soared from around $3 per share on November 25, 1998, to $38.94 on November 27, 1998, and an intra-day high of $47.00 on November 30, 1998, after it announced an updated website. Two weeks later, the share price was back down to $10. By 2000, the share price had returned to $3. [6]
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.
All data in the table is taken from the Fortune Global 500 list of technology sector companies for 2021 [6] unless otherwise specified. As of 2021, Fortune lists Amazon (revenue of $386.064 billion), Jingdong ($108.087 billion), and Alibaba ($105.865 billion) in the retailing sector rather than the technology sector.
Amazon logo The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle. Amazon.com, Inc. is an American conglomerate headquartered in Seattle, Washington.Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [1]
The following tables list the largest mergers and acquisitions by decade of transaction. Transaction values are given in the US dollar value for the year of the merger, adjusted for inflation. As of February 2024 [update] , the largest ever acquisition was the 1999 takeover of Mannesmann by Vodafone Airtouch plc at $183 billion ($334.7 billion ...
The Russell 2000 is by far the most common benchmark for mutual funds that identify themselves as "small-cap", while the S&P 500 index is used primarily for large capitalization stocks. It is the most widely quoted measure of the overall performance of small-cap to mid-cap company shares.
[3] 2000 was the year that saw the most new Israeli listings on the exchange – 33 companies. [4] Through the years, many have been acquired, merged with other companies, privatized, or gone out of business. [5] Since the 1980s, over 250 Israeli companies had an initial public offering on the Nasdaq.
"Night wind hawkers" sold stock on the streets during the South Sea Bubble (The Great Picture of Folly, 1720). Microcap stock fraud is a form of securities fraud involving stocks of "microcap" companies, generally defined in the United States as those with a market capitalization of under $250 million. Its prevalence has been estimated to run ...