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Glossary

Market value (market cap)

The price the exchange puts on the whole company: share price times number of shares.

What it is

The price the exchange puts on the whole company: share price times number of shares. Shown on the stocks pages.

How Dados B3 calculates it

closing price × shares outstanding (issued minus treasury shares). When there are common and preferred shares, each class enters at its own close.

Example

Illustrative example, with made-up numbers to keep the arithmetic easy: Share at R$ 20 and 50 million shares outstanding: market value = R$ 1 billion.

What to watch for when reading it

• It is not what the company is worth in a sale or liquidation; it is the last trade's price multiplied by shares.
• It changes every day with the price; the trading date is shown alongside.

See also

• Enterprise value (EV)
• P/E (price to earnings)
• P/B (price to book value)

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Educational content to understand what each number means. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell.