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What is a "large cap" stock?

Within the stock market itself, there are additional risks or ways that we can slice up the stock market to get added returns. And one of those is through the size of a company.And that's its market capitalization which is really as simple as taking the number of shares outstanding of that company, multiplying it by its stock price. And so a large company is gonna be--the really big companies--it's a large capitalization company. Large cap companies could probably be anywhere from five to ten billion and larger, depending on who's doing the defining.

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