Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

megacap

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mega-cap
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a market capitalization among the very largest.

noun

The stock of a public company with a very high market capitalization, typically over $200 billion.

Example Sentences

"a megacap tech company"
"Owning anything but megacap stocks really hurt performance"
"This was largely due to the biggest stocks today — such as Nvidia or Tesla — being more volatile than the megacap stocks of the past, such as banks or energy companies, said Laurent De Greef, head of portfolio strategy at D.E. Shaw Investment Management."
"While US mega-cap tech companies have had a rough start to 2026, the Halo trade helped to push UK and EU stock markets to record levels by the end of February."
"Those proposed changes included shortening the “seasoning period” for new IPOs from 12 months to six months, waiving the investable weight factor (IWF) requirement for MegaCap companies to make at least 10 percent of their shares publicly available, and waiving the requirements for MegaCap companies to demonstrate profitability in the latest quarter of the financial year along with the previous four quarters."

Etymology

From mega- + cap (“capitalization”).

Inflected Forms

mega cap (alternative) mega-cap (alternative) megacaps (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

megacorp microcap small-cap midcap large cap

Questions

What does megacap mean?: Having a market capitalization among the very largest.
Where does megacap come from?: From mega- + cap (“capitalization”).

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