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Market capitalisation

What the stock market values the whole company at.

How it’s calculated

Share price × number of shares in issue.

How to read it

It is the usual way to describe a company’s size: “large-cap”, “mid-cap” and “small-cap” refer to it. It changes every time the share price moves.

How StockDecks scores it

Shown for context. It is not scored, but it feeds other measures such as price to sales and free cash flow yield.

Every measure, benchmark and weighting is set out on the methodology page.

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