large-cap

American  

[lahrj-kap] / ˈlɑrdʒˈkæp /

adjective

1. designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.

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Example Sentences

Small caps have been doing pretty well since early November, when value stocks, cyclical stocks and other lagging corners of the market started to outperform after trailing their large-cap growth rivals for years.

From MarketWatch

Equities would include U.S. large-cap stocks, with an emphasis on dividend-paying stocks, some exposure to international stocks and — given your age — less reliance on high-volatility growth stocks.

From MarketWatch

The S&P 500 is the large-cap U.S. benchmark.

From MarketWatch

A list of the day’s worst-performing stocks in the large-cap U.S. benchmark index is below.

From MarketWatch

Her research shows that in years when small-cap earnings exceed large-cap earnings and accelerate, as she expects this year, small-caps have outperformed 75% of the time by an average of nine percentage points a year.

From Barron's