Market value
Market value is the price that a buyer pays to purchase shares of capital stock in the open market. Of course, for every buyer there is a seller.
Definitions
According to College Accounting: A Practical Approach by Slater (13th edition),
- Market value. The price that a buyer pays to purchase shares of capital stock in the open market. Of course, for every buyer there is a seller.
According to the Strategic Management by David and David (15th edition),
- Market value. Number of shares outstanding times stock price.
Related concepts
- Accounting (alternatively known as accountancy) is management of financial data, information, and knowledge about financial transactions of legal entities. Accountancy tends to include bookkeeping and, depending on a particilar enterprise, may also include quatitative analysis of financial data in the bookkeeping system and/or business intelligence.
