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Market cap

A company's share price times its share count: the market's price tag for the whole business. It is why a $900 stock can be a smaller company than a $150 one, and why price alone tells you almost nothing. It prices the equity only, so a company carrying debt costs more to buy outright than its market cap suggests.

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