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Elementary My Dear Watson. Share Price V. Market Cap

By James Parter | Wednesday 13 August 2014


 


Today I talk about something that still astounds me and that is the amount of private investors who get confused between share prices and market cap's as a way of seeing how much a company is worth. On bulletin boards you also see rowdy investors saying "this will fly to 20p" and "it's still only at 1p!" when a share price is 1p. Is that meant to mean that the company is cheap? No!


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