How Can Investors Use Market Cap as an Evaluation Metric?

Market capitalization, or market cap for short, is a metric that's defined as the number of shares outstanding for a company multiplied by its share price. This measure can be used to compare companies in the same industry. On a Fool Live episode recorded on April 14, Fool contributors Brian Stoffel, Brian Feroldi, and Brian Withers answer a viewer's question about how to use the market cap metric to think about the future potential of a stock.

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