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Market Capitalization

September 29th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in Tutorials

Market Capitization or Market Cap = Number of Issued Shares x Latest Share Price

For example if a company has 100 million shares and its share price is RM5, its market cap is RM500 million. In theory the stock market is placing a value of RM500 million for that whole company.

Note: Appraising a company’s true value may become harder if there is a large number of derivative instruments (eg options/warrants) issued by a company.

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Butterfly Says:
August 16th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
is there a list of leading companies in Malaysia in term of Market Capitalization?
larry Says:
August 17th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Butterfly – For the largest Bursa Malaysia companies by Market Cap:
http://www.horizon.my/investor/list.php

or click on Top 50 at the top.

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