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microcap

microcap adjective: having a very small market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.

Adjective

microcap (not comparable)

  1. (US) Having a very small market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.

Noun

microcap (plural microcaps)

  1. (US) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
    • But they are not looking for the extremely small stocks known as microcaps.2007 July 8, J. Alex Tarquinio, “Loving What Nobody Wants”, in New York Times

Forms of microcap

Adjective
alternative formmicro-cap
Noun
pluralmicrocaps

Origin of microcap

From micro- + cap (short for capitalization).

Questions about microcap

What does microcap mean?
Microcap means having a very small market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
What part of speech is microcap?
Microcap can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near microcap in the dictionary

  1. microcannulations
  2. microcanonical
  3. microcanonically
  4. microcantilever
  5. microcantilevers
  6. microcap
  7. microcapillaries
  8. microcapillarity
  9. microcapillarization
  10. microcapillary
  11. microcapnograph

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