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Word of the day: Market Value Of Equity
Your common shares. There's a market for them. Ticker: YOU sells for $32.12 this moment. You own a million of them. You can do the math.
Market value is just whatever someone else will pay for something, and right now, on NASDAQ, YOU is selling for $32.12. That's what a share of YOU is worth.