Market capitalization
Plain definition. Market capitalization, or market cap, is one measure of a company’s size: the total value of its outstanding shares of stock, FINRA explains.
Technical definition. FINRA defines market cap as the total value of a company’s outstanding shares of stock, counting publicly traded shares plus restricted shares held by company officers and insiders. To calculate it, multiply the number of shares outstanding by the current stock price, so 5 million shares at $20 each gives a market capitalization of $100 million. Because investors set the stock price, FINRA calls market cap the perceived value of a company, which is not necessarily its actual value.
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Market Cap Explained | FINRA.org (finra.org), read October 1, 2026.
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- What market value would a given XRP price imply, and what does the evidence say it would take?
- What is XRP's price and market cap, and what has its price history been?
- How volatile is XRP, and how closely does its price move with bitcoin and the wider crypto market?
- Is future adoption already priced into XRP?