At some eight times market capitalisation, that turnover is itself among the highest in the world.
Its market capitalisation has dropped by an amount roughly equal to the entire value of Ford.
This gives Sanofi the market capitalisation, and thus the ammunition, to launch this bid.
For some, collapsing share prices mean that this burden now exceeds their market capitalisation.
It is now France's 39th-largest company by market capitalisation on the back of possible Internet forays.
America, home to about half the world's total stockmarket capitalisation, has relatively little to worry about.
His company's market capitalisation has climbed from 2 billion baht in 1993 to 17 billion baht today.
Asian stockmarkets account for 34% of global market capitalisation, ahead of both America (33%) and Europe (27%).
IPO, especially in Saudi Arabia, which already accounts for roughly half of the region's total market capitalisation.
Frank Russell urges its clients to use world market capitalisation, rather than plan liabilities, as an investment guideline.
Jack Welch boosted General Electric's market capitalisation by 4, 500% at a time when its old rival, Westinghouse, was disintegrating.
Last year was catastrophic, even by 2002's demanding standards: the industry's market capitalisation fell by about half (see chart).
That may not be wonderful news for the country's banks, which account for a quarter of the stockmarket's capitalisation.
Strikingly, no fewer than 24 of Europe's biggest companies by market capitalisation have some shares owned by a government.
David Atkinson, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, reckons that a merger would increase the banks' combined market capitalisation by 40%.
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Besides T-Online and Terra Networks, Freeserve, the next biggest by market capitalisation, was set up by Dixon's, a British retailer.
The company recently became the most valuable US firm after its market capitalisation overtook that of oil company Exxon Mobil.
Put another way, the combined market capitalisation of Japan's financial giants is less than the capitalisation of just one American bank.
To see how consistent they have been, Mr Evans reran his calculations using net profit and market-capitalisation figures for previous years.
Indeed, the value of its property portfolio exceeds its market capitalisation, suggesting that the shops could be put to better use.
Thanks to its plunging share price, its market capitalisation is now barely 20% of what it was when Mr Welch left.
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Selling assets makes a lot of sense for a company which now has a break-up value much higher than its market capitalisation.
State-controlled companies account for 80% of the market capitalisation of the Chinese stockmarket, more than 60% of Russia's, and 35% of Brazil's.
The market capitalisation of some of the weakest halved in two days.
Ce carnet de route est le premier d'un long processus de capitalisation.
But, across Europe, how would such a re-capitalisation of the banks work?
Some want it to have influence commensurate with the size of America's equity markets, which account for almost half of global market capitalisation.
Gavin Casey, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, favours dividing shares in proportion to market capitalisation, a measure on which London dominates.
The high capitalisation guards them against takeover by other European banks, but if their profits were to fall, they would become easy targets.
On February 24th, Moody's, another rating agency, said that some German life insurers will be under pressure for several years because of their weak capitalisation.
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