You Learn this before investing usually. Market cap is calculated by shares on issue multiplied by the Share Price. Therefore completely different.
Hence why a dilutionaey event can reduce the share price but increase the market cap. To compare two companies you must use market cap as 1c sp is useless information if you don't know the shares on issue of comparative companies..
This is vital to investing, worth spending some time to grasp before gambling money on the ASX.
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