Definition of mosquito for English Language Learners. : a small flying insect that bites the skin of people and animals and sucks their blood.
What it is: Small-cap stock refers to a company with a market capitalization (calculated by taking a firm's current share price and multiplying that figure by the total number of shares outstanding) near the low end of the publicly traded spectrum.
Scandals are a feature of the landscape, but small cap stocks are the real investment story in Japan. This company, as a result, requires additional working capital investment and suffers a lower free cash flow and, consequently, a reduced market capitalization. The path to higher shareholder value. Market capitalization breaks are applied globally, not on a country-by-country basis.