What is PMC-Sierra's market capitalization as of market close on
4/8/03? What was its market cap at its height in March 2000?

zpatch --

PMC-Sierra's market cap at the end of business yesterday was just over
$1 billion.  Here is a link to today's price information from Yahoo!
Finance:
Yahoo! Finance: PMC-Sierra
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=PMCS&d=t

This page shows a market cap for PMC-Sierra of $1.053 billion during
mid-day trading today.  Since the price of the stock is down about .9
points today, the market cap at close of business yesterday was about
$1.068 billion.


The market cap of PMC-Sierra on March 1, 2000 was $31,194,533,886. 
That figure is included in this chart published on February 28, 2001
by TheStreet.com:

TheStreet.com: "Market Cap Meltdown" (about 1/2 way down)
http://www.thestreet.com/comment/wrong/1323770.html  

In percentage terms, PMC-Sierra's market capitalization has dropped
96.6% from March 1, 2000 to close of business yesterday.


Search Strategy:

I did a symbol look-up for PMC-Sierra at Yahoo! Finance and used that
to search for current performance details for the stock on that site.

I then tried various Google searches and ultimately found the March 1
market cap information by using the following search terms:
pmc sierra "market capitalization OR cap" march 2000
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22PMC+Sierra%22+%22market+capitalization+OR+cap%22++March+2000


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markj-ga

Exactly what i was looking for.