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What is Market Value?
Market Value refers to the amount an asset can be sold for on the open market, at any given time.
If you hold 100 shares of stock ABC that you can sell on the market for $50 apiece, your holdings have a market value of $5,000. Market value does not necessarily refer only to stocks. It can be any asset that can be bought or sold on the open market. Stocks tend to have greater levels of liquidity and broad-based market participation, so it is easier to disseminate a stocks market value at any point in time. Illiquid assets can be more difficult to value, such as real estate or works of art.
The market value of an asset changes over time due to supply and demand forces. Investors hope to find stocks whose market value is well below book value, meaning the stock trades at a deep discount to book value per share.
What Are the Vesting Rules for My SIMPLE IRA?
Employer contributions to SIMPLEs are immediately vested to the employee
What is the Head-and-Shoulders Top (Bearish) Pattern?
The Head-and-Shoulders Top pattern forms when a stock is testing new highs on an uptrend, but fails to retest its high
What is the Rectangle Bottom (Bearish) Pattern?
The Rectangle Bottom pattern forms when a currency pair's price is stuck in a rangebound motion, between support and resistance
What is Abatement Cost?
Acquiring technologies to abate their environmental impact, and the overhead of such projects is called Abatement Cost
What is foreign aid?
Foreign aid constitutes one of the major forms of asset transfer between different parts of the world
What is Mortgage REIT?
Mortgage REITs are a type of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) which offers investors income distributions which...
Should I Listen to Commentators on Financial News Programs?
First and foremost, everything they say and do is designed to keep the show’s ratings up. It’s wise to remember that
Learn to Use Model Portfolios for Long-Term Investing
What is accommodation trading?
Accommodation Trading is when two traders enter into a non-competitive trade agreement which disregards the current price
What is a bear put spread?
A bear put spread involves the use of two puts, one sold and one bought, at different strike prices