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Old 05-26-2010, 03:00 PM   #21
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What exactly is so important about market cap again?

Where is Apple in terms of revenue and profit on the grand scheme of things?
It's the size of a company as viewed by the public.

Market cap reflects only the equity value of a company. A more comprehensive measure is enterprise value (EV), which includes debt and other factors. Insurance firms use a value called the embedded value (EV).
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