market-price

  • 71market capitalization — USA equity value, Also known as market capitalization. The value of a public company based on the market price of its issued and outstanding common stock. It is calculated by multiplying the number of outstanding shares by the current market… …

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  • 72market-rate — UK US adjective PROPERTY ► used to describe property that is sold at the usual market price rather than at a reduced price so that poorer people can live there: »There are more market rate apartments for sale than there were three years ago …

    Financial and business terms

  • 73price — n Price, charge, cost, expense can mean what is given or asked in payment for a thing or for its use, or for services. Price and charge in their ordinary nontechnical use commonly designate what is asked or demanded in the case of price,… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 74market-value — market priceˈ or market valˈue noun The current price a commodity, etc will fetch at sale • • • Main Entry: ↑market …

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  • 75market — [mär′kit] n. [ME < NormFr < L mercatus, trade, marketplace, pp. of mercari, to trade < merx (gen. mercis), wares, merchandise < ? IE base * merk̑ , to seize] 1. a) a gathering of people for buying and selling things, esp. provisions… …

    English World dictionary

  • 76price/earnings ratio — (P/E ratio) One of the methods of measuring how highly investors value the earnings of a company. It is calculated by dividing the company s share market price by its earnings per share. Traditionally, a high price/earnings ratio suggests a… …

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  • 77price-earn|ings ratio — «PRYS UR nihngz», the ratio between the market price of a stock and its dollar earnings per share. A price of $64 with earnings of $8 per share has a ratio of 8 to 1. »The price earnings ratios of many blue chip…which had swollen far out of… …

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  • 78current market price — A commercial term, familiar in contracts for the sale of goods, meaning that the contract price shall run or flow with the market, following its fluctuations. Ford v Norton, 32 NM 518, 260 P 411, 55 ALR 261 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 79price-earningsratio — price earn·ings ratio (prīsʹûrʹnĭngz) n. The ratio of the market price of a common stock to its earnings per share. * * * …

    Universalium

  • 80fair market price — fair′ mar′ket price n. bus the price at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to do business • Etymology: 1925–30 …

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