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market share

American  

noun

Economics.
  1. the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.


market share British  

noun

  1. the percentage of a total market, in terms of either value or volume, accounted for by the sales of a specific brand

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In both cases, U.S. companies managed to keep and even increase their European market share by building more data centers to house clients’ data on European soil and pledging not to send it elsewhere.

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In our view, there is no reason to think Google will gain market share in digital advertising because the rollout of Gemini AI is just replacing traditional Google Search traffic.

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Analyst Ben Crozier points to 4Q data from Telcowatch that Spark lost an estimated 20 basis points of market share across its main Spark and Skinny brands, taking its estimated connection share to 38.1%.

From The Wall Street Journal

If there’s a positive it’s that Spark’s market share losses are slowing.

From The Wall Street Journal

KeyBanc expects AMD’s market share in personal-computer chips to increase to 26% in 2026 from 21% last year.

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