Capitalization (disambiguation)
- For Wikipedia guidelines for capitalization, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters.
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Capitalization is writing a word with its initial letter in uppercase and remaining letters in lowercase, or gaining by turning a situation to one's advantage. Capitalization may also refer to:
- choice of case in text (choosing from ALLCAPS, Capitalized, CamelCase, etc.)
- an issue of shares by a company known as a rights issue
- the degree to which a bank or depository institution is meeting its capital requirement and/or capital adequacy ratio
- market capitalization, a measurement of corporate or economic size of a public company, equal to the company's share price times the number of shares outstanding
- adding a capital expenditure to an asset account in accountancy
- in Austrian Economics, taking the present value of future earnings (as proposed by Carl Menger)
See also
- Capital (disambiguation)
- Capitalism
- Undercapitalization
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters