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.

   Synonym: market price

   Hypernyms: value; metric

   Hyponym: fair market value

   Coordinate terms: ACV, actual cash value, book value, book price, TV, tax value

   • 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.

   • 2025 November 25, Marco Respinti, “Refunding Salvation: Inside the Unification Church’s Independent Compensation Committee”, in Bitter Winter‎^[1]:

     Whether in cash or in the purchase of artifacts at prices far above their market value, the issue of giving (and taking back) money has become the fulcrum of both tragedy and politics.

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 (de) m
• Irish: luach margaidh m
• Italian: valore di mercato m
• Korean: 시장 가치(市場價値) (sijang gachi)
• 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
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: قیمت (kıymet)

• Welsh: gwerth marchnadol m