“The behemoths of the stock market have become so big that they’re distorting gauges that define company size. CRSP’s definition of large stocks includes those in the top 85% of the entire market. The norm from other index providers is to count stocks from the biggest down and define those after a certain number as small.”
Read the full article at The Wall Street Journal.
This article from the Wall Street Journal highlights a significant decline in publicly traded companies, noting a drop from over 7,000 in 1998 to fewer than 4,000 last year, as
Using CRSP Market Indexes Methodology, CRSP Count™ tracks changes in the number of securities by market cap segments – Mega, Mid, Small and Micro – through time.
We are excited to share that CRSP’s research datasets were used in ~2,100 research papers published in 2024.
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