Capital stock is the number of common and preferred shares that a company is authorized to issue, and is recorded in shareholders' equity.

Market capitalization is the dollar amount the stock market is valuing a company at. It consists of the total dollar value of all of the company's outstanding shares. Market cap is calculated by ...

(market CAPitalization) The current share price of a company's stock times the total number of shares outstanding. Although the market cap of a company is an indication of a company's value, it is ...