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value added
in business: the difference between the sale price and the production cost of a product is the unit profit. In economics, the sum of the unit profit, the unit depreciation cost, and the unit labor cost is the unit value added.
unicorn
startup company valued at over $1 billion
net present value
valuation in finance
asset management
any system that monitors and maintains things of value to an entity or group, including both tangible and intangible assets
financial analysis
activity of evaluating financial markets and products
value investing
investment paradigm that involves buying securities that appear underpriced by some form of fundamental analysis
Herfindahl index
measure of the size of firms in relation to the industry and an indicator of the amount of competition among them
par value
stated value or face value
book value
in accounting, the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance
discounted cash flow analysis
method of valuing a project, company, or asset using the concepts of the time value of money
risk premium
minimum amount of money by which the expected return on a risky asset must exceed the known return on a risk-free asset
valuation
process of estimating what an asset is financially worth
Economic Value Added
value of a firm's profit after deduction of capital costs
Tobin's q
ratio between a physical asset's market value and its replacement value
fair value
financial estimation of potential market price
financial analyst
person who performs financial analysis
customer lifetime value
metric to predict how much a business can earn from an average customer over the course of the entire relationship
intrinsic value
value calculated on simplified assumptions
real versus nominal value
distinction between real and nominal value in economics and accounting
business valuation
process of determining economic value of an owner's interest
mark-to-market accounting
accounting practice
store of value
property that money is useful later
Dividend discount model
method of valuing a company's stock price
Stock valuation
method of calculating theoretical values of companies and their stocks
yield
in finance, a measure of the ex-ante return to a holder of the security
value date
date when the value of an asset that fluctuates in price is determined
quantitative analysis
form of financial analysis using quantitative and statistical methods
Cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio
stock market valuation measure
value of life
economic value used to quantify the benefit of avoiding a fatality. It is also referred to as the cost of life, value of preventing a fatality (VPF), implied cost of averting a fatality (ICAF), and value of a statistical life (VSL)
event study
statistical method in finance
depreciation
gradual decrease in the economic value of the capital stock of a firm, nation or other entity, either through physical depreciation, obsolescence or changes in the demand for the services of the capital in question
value of information
amount in information economics
adjusted present value
variation of the net present value
Buffett indicator
aggregate stock market valuation metric
capital appreciation
the increase value of finance over time
Terminal value
future discounted value of all future cash flows beyond a given date
customer value
the total combined customer lifetime values of all of the company’s customers
Pre-money valuation
venture capital term