Capitalisation of a company

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Hi there :D I was wondering if the capitalisation of a company means anything...
When it has a huge capitalisation, what does it mean? and vice versa.

Hope to hear from the professionals or anyone who knows about it...Opinions are also accepted

Thanks
 
I am not sure how many type of capitalisation there are in financial accounting. The more common one is Market Capitalisation, in short, Market Cap.

This is:
Number of outstanding shares x share price

As an example, you can get the Market Cap of IBM at this Yahoo link:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=IBM

Replace the symbol with any that you want to find out.
 
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