rate of return — Calculated as the (value now minus value at time of purchase) divided by value at time of purchase. For equities ( equity), we often include dividends with the value now. See also: return, annual rate of return. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * … Financial and business terms
Rate of return — In finance, rate of return (ROR), also known as return on investment (ROI), rate of profit or sometimes just return, is the ratio of money gained or lost (whether realized or unrealized) on an investment relative to the amount of money invested.… … Wikipedia
Internal rate of return — The internal rate of return (IRR) is a capital budgeting metric used by firms to decide whether they should make investments. It is an indicator of the efficiency or quality of an investment, as opposed to net present value (NPV), which indicates … Wikipedia
Modified Internal Rate of Return — (MIRR) is a financial measure used to determine the attractiveness of an investment. It is generally used as part of a capital budgeting process to rank various alternative choices. As the name implies, MIRR is a modification of the financial… … Wikipedia
Minimum acceptable rate of return — In business and engineering, the minimum acceptable rate of return, often abbreviated MARR, or hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return on a project a manager or company is willing to accept before starting a project, given its risk and the… … Wikipedia
Internal Rate Of Return - IRR — The discount rate often used in capital budgeting that makes the net present value of all cash flows from a particular project equal to zero. Generally speaking, the higher a project s internal rate of return, the more desirable it is to… … Investment dictionary
required rate of return — ( RRR) The minimum expected yield by investors require in order to select a particular investment. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary … Financial and business terms
internal rate of return — index used to estimate is an investment is worthwhile according to its relation to expected interest during the life of the investment … English contemporary dictionary
Return on equity — (ROE) measures the rate of return on the ownership interest (shareholders equity) of the common stock owners. It measures a firm s efficiency at generating profits from every unit of shareholders equity (also known as net assets or assets minus… … Wikipedia
return — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 coming/going back; giving sth back ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, full ▪ a full return to health ▪ gradual ▪ eventual ▪ … Collocations dictionary
expected return — The expected return on a risky asset, given a probability distribution for the possible rates of return ( rate of return). Expected return equals some risk free rate (generally the prevailing U.S. Treasury note or bond rate ) plus a risk premium… … Financial and business terms
