valuation
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the act of valuing, esp a formal assessment of the worth of property, jewellery, etc
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the price arrived at by the process of valuing
the valuation of this property is considerable
I set a high valuation on technical ability
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The process of figuring out exactly how much something is worth is known as valuation. Before you sell your old Pokemon cards, you should take them to an expert for a valuation. Whenever you determine the monetary value of something, that's valuation. However, you're most likely to come across this word in the context of banking or finance. The valuation of a company affects whether or not investors are interested in it, and the valuation of stocks determines how much a stockholder makes when she sells them. Valuation shares a root with value, from the Latin root valere, "be strong, be worth."
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Valuation multiples would be cut and MS target prices for Australia’s four largest banks would be an average 32% below current share prices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Valuation ratios are to the right of the table.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 12, 2026
Appeared in the December 19, 2025, print edition as 'OpenAI Looks to $830 Billion Valuation'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
"I'm always expecting OpenAI's valuation to come down because competition is coming and its capital structure is so obviously inappropriate," said Pluris Valuation Advisors president Espen Robak.
From Barron's • Dec. 16, 2025
This Method of Valuation Applicable to All Commodities of High Grade.—Illustrations of this principle might be multiplied indefinitely.
From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates
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