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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel and revenue numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation "SME" is used by many national agencies and international organizations such as the World Bank, the OECD, European Union, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
A middle-market or mid-market company is one that is larger than a small business and smaller than a big business. [1] [2] Different authorities use different metrics to compare company sizes — some look at revenue, others at either asset size or number of employees [3] — with the result that different authorities give different definitions of the "middle market".
The term Mittelstand mainly applies to mid-sized firms as opposed to larger listed companies and, more importantly, Mittelstand companies are characterized by a common set of values and management practices. [5] In Britain different terms have been devised by the media to describe their own mittelstand companies, such as Brittelstand.
By comparison, a medium-sized business or mid-sized business has fewer than 500 employees. The European Union generally defines a small business as one that has fewer than fifty employees and either turnover or balance sheet less than €10 m. [7] but the European Commission is undertaking a review of this definition. [8]
In the United States, a small cap company is a company whose market capitalization (shares x value of each share) is considered small, from $250 million to $2 billion. Market caps terms may be different outside the United States.
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As of 30 November 2022, the stocks of the Russell Midcap Index had a weighted average market capitalization of approximately $22.64 billion, median market capitalization of $9.91 billion, and the market capitalization of the largest company is $54.74 billion.
A Business Development Company ("BDC") is a form of unregistered closed-end investment company in the United States that invests in small and mid-sized businesses. This form of company was created by the US Congress in 1980 in the amendments to the Investment Company Act of 1940. Publicly filing firms may elect regulation as BDCs if they meet ...