A Public Company Market Value is?

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." - Coco Chanel

Easy way to Figure out Market Value

As an entrepreneur, you may decide to invest into public companies and it's important to know how you would determine their market value.

​You can calculate a public company's market value y looking at it's share price.  For example, let's assume that a company your interested in purchasing has 10,000 outstanding shares and selling them for $25.  This means you and investors think the company is worth $250,000.

​Market value has been defined as what an item sells for in the marketplace and book value is the value an item is carried at in the accounting records (the books).

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