market value

English

Noun

market value (plural market values)

1. (finance) The price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch for goods, services or securities on the open market.
   • 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 555:

     Yet when a commuter fare increase is made, the volume of protest from passengers is astonishing; some even accuse the railways of robbing suburbanites, for any increase in fares takes hundreds of dollars from the market value of suburban homes.

Derived terms

• fair market value
• sexual market value

Translations

the price at which something is or can be traded

• Catalan: valor de mercat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 市場價值／市场价值 (shìchǎng jiàzhí), 市值 (shìzhí)

• Dutch: marktwaarde (nl) f
• Finnish: markkina-arvo (fi)
• French: valeur de marché f, valeur marchande (fr) f, valeur vénale (fr) f
• Galician: valor de mercado m
• Georgian: საბაზრო ღირებულება (sabazro ɣirebuleba), საბაზრო საფასური (sabazro sapasuri)
• German: Marktwert m
• Italian: valore di mercato m
• Polish: wartość rynkowa f
• Portuguese: valor de mercado m
• Russian: ры́ночная сто́имость f (rýnočnaja stóimostʹ), курсова́я сто́имость f (kursovája stóimostʹ)
• Spanish: valor de mercado (es) m
• Swedish: marknadsvärde (sv) n

See also

• book value
• market price