What Is Market Capitalization?

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What Is Market Capitalization?| Formula and Examples Market Capitalization refers to the total market value of a company outstanding shares of stock. It is a measurement of value of a company which is equal to the share price time the number of share outstanding (share that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by the investors). Full Market Cap includes free float shares as well as non-free float shares such as promoter's shareholding.  How to calculate Market Cap? Market Capitalization = Market price of share × No. of shares outstanding Ex; - so if you want to purchase a company like Wipro, you have to buy all the shares of the company and pay the market price for each share. If Wipro has 10000 shares and price per share is 1000, then you should have Rs.…
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What is Initial Public Offering (IPO)?

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What is Initial Public Offering “IPO” An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is a process where a private company issues shares to the public for the first time, it could be a new young company seeking capital to expand, or a large private company that decides to listed on the stock exchange. Initial Public Offering (IPO) is a mechanism for an unlisted company to raise funds from the primary market. It helps companies to raise equity capital by issuing new shares to the public or the existing shareholders can sell their shares to the public without raising any fresh capital. After (IPO), the company's shares can traded in an open market. Those shares can be further sold by investors through the secondary market. Reasons for IPO To raise funds from the…
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What Is the Stock Market and How to Invest in the Stock Market?

Stock Market
In the word of the famous value stock investor, peter lynch, “Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you could do it” what is Stock Market? A Stock Market is the marketplace where you can buy and sell the shares or securities of a company that are listed under the Stock Exchanges, in a normal marketplace you’ll just buy, but here you’ll sell as well, so you control both aspects and just thereby your fate is in your own hands.The stock market in which shares is issued and traded either through exchanges (In India there are two stock exchanges namely, BSE and NSE ) or over-the-counter (OTC) market.In other words Over-the-counter Trading can include equities that are not listed under the…
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