Definitions for dummies29 Jul 2010 17:41
Market Capitalization: market capitalization is a market estimate of a company's value, based on perceived future prospects, economic and monetary conditions. Stock prices can also be moved by speculation about changes in expectations about profits or about mergers and acquisitions. Speculation can affect any asset class causing, valuations to rise/fall disproportionately to what many people would consider the fundamental value of the assets in question. Market capitalization is therefore only a rough measure of the true size of a market. Note the last sentence!
Asset Value: An asset is money or valuables belonging to a company.
So you see MCR assets may be worth 8 million, or near enough, however this may be based on the assets becoming profitable. The Market Cap as explained above can be manipulated despite a company's true value which is why things may look worse than they actually are