weighted average

British  

noun

1. an average calculated by taking into account not only the frequencies of the values of a variable but also some other factor such as their variance. The weighted average of observed data is the result of dividing the sum of the products of each observed value, the number of times it occurs, and this other factor by the total number of observations

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Example Sentences

The offer implies a price of A$0.778 for each Predictive Discovery share based on Perseus’s closing price Tuesday, a nearly 35% premium to the stock’s 10-day volume weighted average price, Perseus said.

From The Wall Street Journal

His explanation for this time frame is that it approximates the debt refinancing cycle because the weighted average maturity of that debt is just over five years.

From MarketWatch

As of June 2025, CoreWeave’s weighted average interest rate on short-term debt was 12.3%, up from 9.6% six months prior, according to company filings.

From MarketWatch

Using an industry-standard weighted average, OpenAI’s smallest, fastest model, GPT-5 Nano, costs around 10 cents per million tokens, while the full-fledged, more sophisticated GPT-5 costs around $3.44 per million tokens.

From The Wall Street Journal

Still, it says Air NZ’s shares already implies a recovery in returns to levels akin to its weighted average cost of capital.

From The Wall Street Journal