Hi there I was wondering if the capitalisation of a company means anything... When it has a huge capitalisation, what does it mean? and vice versa. Hope to hear from the professionals or anyone who knows about it...Opinions are also accepted Thanks
I am not sure how many type of capitalisation there are in financial accounting. The more common one is Market Capitalisation, in short, Market Cap. This is: Number of outstanding shares x share price As an example, you can get the Market Cap of IBM at this Yahoo link: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=IBM Replace the symbol with any that you want to find out.