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megacap

megacap adjective: having a market capitalization among the very largest.

Adjective

megacap (not comparable)

  1. Having a market capitalization among the very largest.

Noun

megacap (plural megacaps)

  1. The stock of a public company with a very high market capitalization, typically over $200 billion.
    • a megacap tech company
    • Owning anything but megacap stocks really hurt performance1997 March, Beth Terrana, quotee, “The Key Facts on the 21 funds in this year's portfolios”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, page 55

Forms of megacap

Adjective
alternative formmega cap
alternative formmega-cap
alternative formMegaCap
Noun
pluralmegacaps

Origin of megacap

From mega- + cap (“capitalization”).

Questions about megacap

What does megacap mean?
Megacap means having a market capitalization among the very largest.
What part of speech is megacap?
Megacap can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near megacap in the dictionary

  1. megacampus
  2. megacampuses
  3. megacandela
  4. megacannon
  5. megacannons
  6. megacap
  7. megacapillaries
  8. megacapillary
  9. megacaps
  10. megacardia
  11. megacarnivore

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