But the world's largest company by market capitalisation has just delivered a record-breaking set of results that took even seasoned telecoms analysts by surprise.
For a company with a market capitalisation of £243m, of which £143m was the result of last year's rights issue, the outlook looks grim.
The extent to which this represents an under-measurement of resource use is indicated by the low resulting measured level of capitalisation of the special clinic, also amounting to approximately 2%.
The company, which is due to report its interim financial results this week, has a market capitalisation of £150m.
In this regard, the capitalisation of knowledge has changed the way scientists view the results of their research, and the entrepreneurial culture assumed by academia now fosters the economic exploitation of the results of their R&D as well as their intellectual potential (Etzkowitz 1998).
As a result, Berkeley, valued at £938m, now has the largest market capitalisation of any of the homebuilders.
ITV's shares have been trading close to historical lows this week following speculation about falling advertising revenues ahead of its 2008 results next Wednesday, 4 March 4. The company now has a market capitalisation of £973m.
With a market capitalisation of £230m, the stockmarket value is now less than its debt, which was taken on as a result of a capital return in June 2007 and which must be replaced by June 2013.
The largest listed firm has a market capitalisation of $700m.
That exceeds its current market capitalisation of £108m.
It has a market capitalisation of more than £13bn.
