Two companies can share the exact same market cap and still have very different real price tags. Market cap is just share price times shares outstanding — it says nothing about debt or cash. Enterprise Value (EV) fixes that: EV = Market Cap + Total Debt − Cash. It's the closer approximation of what it would actually cost to buy the entire business outright.Insider Angle: this is why EV, not market cap, is the number…
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