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net present value

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noun

  1. NPV. accounting an assessment of the long-term profitability of a project made by adding together all the revenue it can be expected to achieve over its whole life and deducting all the costs involved, discounting both future costs and revenue at an appropriate rate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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At spot spodumene prices, Wildcat’s net present value is A$1.49/share, or A$2.9 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

For every $1 a company currently spends on AI infrastructure such as graphics processing units, he said, the estimated net present value is just 20 cents.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025

Each dollar invested in generative AI infrastructure yields about 20 cents of net present value, compared to $1.40 for cloud 1.0.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

As the historian William N. Goetzmann has written, the related idea of net present value "is the most important tool in modern finance."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024

Stock investors who apply fundamental analysis to the positions taken in the market will often encounter net present value calculations when they review financial statements and reports.

From Encyclopedia.com ● Apr. 9, 2018

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