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decliner

decliner

3 7.5
A stock that falls in price during a trading day
  • noun
  • /dɪˈklaɪnər/
  • Jargon
translation icon : valor en declive
  • The stock of Company X was the biggest decliner on the exchange today, losing 20% of its value.
  • issues led decliners
  • decliners by a margin
  • outnumbered decliners

Examples

  • Today's financial report highlighted that the major decliners decreased sharply due to poor earnings forecasts.

  • The financial report listed each decliner and the percentage it dropped during the day.

  • Investors were concerned as the number of decliners outpaced gainers on the stock exchange.

  • Analysts discussed the reasons behind the biggest decliner in the technology sector this week.

  • The stock market saw many decliners today.

  • Yesterday, the decliner in tech stocks was alarming.

  • As the market closed, the top decliners included several technology firms suffering significant losses.

Antonyms

gainer
3 4.0

A person who gets an advantage from a situation

Surface Forms

decliner singular
decliners plural

Morphology

decliner = decline (transparent) = decline + er

The noun is formed by adding '-er' to the verb 'decline' in the sense 'to fall', producing 'a thing that has fallen in price', a straightforward nominalization in trading contexts.

Etymology

Decliner comes from the verb decline, made of de- 'down' and clinare 'to bend', like the familiar word incline or the everyday verb 'lean'. So a decliner in the stock market is something that 'bends down' — a share or security that goes down in price.