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Mega Cap
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Mega Cap
Describing a publicly-traded company with an extraordinarily large amount of market capitalization. Though there is no fixed measurement, a mega-cap company typically has a market capitalization over $200 billion. Some brokerages or exchanges may have slightly different definitions of mega-cap. Some indices track mega-cap companies, as do some exchange traded funds. See also: Large-cap, Mid-cap, Low-cap, Micro-cap.


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74% Source: Bloomberg, Wilshire, Russell As is evident from the figures above, during the correction and for the quarter as a whole, mega cap stocks (as measured by the Dow Industrials and S&P 100 Index) performed best, followed, in descending market cap order, by large caps (S&P 500 Index), mid-caps (S&P Mid-Cap Index) and small caps (Russell 2000 Index).
 
 
 
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