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The market capitalisation is the value placed on a company by the stock market and is an identity - ie the number of shares in issue times the share price. That's it! And by that measure Ricoh is a minnow by comparison with Canon. The market capitalisation is the current share value times the numbe...

What you describe is capital employed. Capitalisation is the value placed on a company by the stock market,ie no of shares in issue multiplied by share price. Capital employed is also referred to as capitalization and I doubt very much that the figure Ricoh quotes on the page agorabasta linked to i...

That's the capitalisation at book value (the price to which the shares were originally issued times the number of shares). That would be quite deceptive of them, and punishable at that. They even mention the date for the estimate quoted, so you must be wrong either way you treat it. Anyway, the sal...

Ricoh is a company very much comparable to Canon. Though Canon reports about twice the sales, their capitalisation in very much equal - must mean Ricoh is more effective. http://www.ricoh.com/about/company/data/ http://www.canon.com/corp/outline/index.html That's the capitalisation at book value (t...