blue chip
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- noun
- /bluː ʧɪp/
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- During market downturns, blue chip companies tend to perform better than smaller, less established firms.
- blue chip stock
- blue chip companies
- blue chip investment
It could be dividend paying stocks that are blue chip, you know, dividend stocks that I, that I, I hold in a basket or an index.
- It could be dividend paying stocks that are blue chip, you know, dividend stocks that I, that I, I hold in a basket or an index.
Examples
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If this turns out to be true, then today's reasonable valuation, coupled with its above-average current yield, indicates that this blue-chip dividend growth stock is currently on sale, or at least reasonably priced.
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Moreover, the graph also shows that Mr. Market has historically placed a premium valuation on this blue-chip retailer.
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Um, I do own some blue chips.
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Jordan, what do you get on that blue chip stock?
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Reporter: The market's year long slide has brought down some of the biggest blue chips.
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The number of blue-chip companies in Britain without a single woman on their boards has also shown improvement.
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Moreover, we believe there is especially a lot of value to be found in the blue-chip dividend growth stocks.
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You're better off keeping to the solid blue chip stock and just going on small movements, you know, which is what I do now quite a lot.
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Established in 1990, the Government Pension Fund of Norway captures surplus Norwegian petroleum rents and reinvests them in stocks, currency, real estate, and other blue-chip assets.
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Investors often prefer blue chip stocks because they are seen as a safe investment with stable dividends.
Synonyms
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A share of a large, well-known company that is safe and pays steady dividends
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'blue' + 'chip' so a learner who knows the words can infer it denotes a chip that is blue. However, the conventional meaning that a blue chip represents the highest value in a set (or the figurative financial sense) depends on cultural knowledge about poker-chip color coding and cannot be fully predicted from the constituents alone, so prior exposure is needed.
Etymology
Blue chip may come from poker. In poker, a blue chip was often the highest-value token, so people began calling very safe, well-known company 'stocks' 'blue chips' to show they were worth a lot and seen as 'safe investments'.