capitalization

[kap-i-tl-uh-zey-shuhn]

noun

1. the act or process of capitalizing.

2. the authorized or outstanding stocks and bonds of a corporation.

3. Accounting.

   1. the total investment of the owner or owners in a business enterprise.

   2. the total corporate liability.

   3. the total arrived at after addition of liabilities.

4. conversion into stocks or bonds.

5. the act of computing the present value of future periodical payments.

capitalization

/ ˌkæpɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən /

noun

1. 1. the act of capitalizing

   2. the sum so derived

2. accounting the par value of the total share capital issued by a company, including the loan capital and sometimes reserves

3. the act of estimating the present value of future payments, earnings, etc

4. the act of writing or printing in capital letters

Word History and Origins

Origin of capitalization¹

First recorded in 1855–60; capitalize + -ation

Example Sentences

Another is that the Magnificent Seven stocks, whose share prices have surged in recent years, account for roughly one-third of the S&P 500’s market capitalization.

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XLF tracks the financial sector of the S&P 500 by holding all 75 stocks weighted by market capitalization.

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Though its shares haven’t sustained their initial pop after listing, the company still commands a market capitalization of over $17 billion.

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That plan requires Tesla to hit a combination of milestones based on operations and market capitalization to unlock shares.

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Shares are up more than 80% in the past six months, and its market capitalization has increased to more than $1.5 trillion.

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When To Use

What does capitalization mean?

Capitalization is the act of using capital letters.A capital letter (A, B, C, etc.) is a letter of the alphabet that is bigger than the lower case version (e.g., c, o, s) and sometimes styled differently as well (e.g., a, b, q). In English, we use capital letters for several reasons.The most common reasons we use capitalization in English are to begin a sentence and to indicate a proper noun.We capitalize the first letter of the first word of a sentence to show that this is the beginning of the sentence, as in Who took my wallet?This includes complete sentences that are used in quotations, as in Mom said, “We are going to the mall.”We also use capitalization for proper nouns, that is a particular person, place, or thing, like James, New York, or the Library of Congress.Sometimes, though, companies name themselves or their products without any capitalization or with capitalization in the middle of the word (sometimes called camel case), as in adidas, eBay, and WikiAnswers.The pronoun I is always capitalized, no matter where it is used in a sentence, as in He went to the park, but I stayed home.