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closing price

closing price

5 3.9
The price of a share at the end of a trading day
  • noun
  • /ˈkloʊzɪŋ praɪs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : precio de cierre
  • Look at the chart below, which tracks closing prices from the first and last day of December and January.
  • Friday's closing price
  • Thursday's closing price
  • stock closing price

Usually these price changes will be daily log returns based upon daily closing prices.

Examples

  • On March 10, 2008, the closing price of Bear Stearns was 70.

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  • Bloomberg says the company is worth 63% more than yesterday's closing price of $9.12, or about $14.82 per share.

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  • The stock is still trading at a 5 percent discount to the closing price before its.

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  • This represents a premium of about 28 percent to Vueling's closing price on Wednesday.

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  • We collect daily closing prices, returns, number of shares outstanding, and trading volume from CRSP.

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  • The latest closing price of its shares moved up 1.73% from the 50-day moving average.

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  • The reported price tag is a 27 percent premium to Sprint's closing price Friday, which was $5.73.

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  • Prior to today, $81.97 was the highest closing price in the last 52 weeks and in the history of J.M. Smucker shares.

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  • If you have not heard yet, Priceline bought Kayak for $1.8 billion, a 29% premium over the closing price of the meta-search engine.

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  • The stock's closing price on Friday was significantly higher than it was earlier in the week.

How High

record price
1 3.1
closing price
  • Specialized
5 3.9
low price
52 1.0
bargain rate
1 3.2

Surface Forms

closing price singular

Morphology

closing + price

The meaning 'the price at the end of a trading period' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'closing' (pertaining to the end) with 'price' (cost). This straightforward compositional pattern (modifier + noun) is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the MWE's meaning without prior exposure.

Etymology

Closing price comes from the picture of a trading floor at the end of the day, when a bell rings and the very last trade sets the day's number. The word closing shows it is the end of trading and price is the final number, so the closing price is used as the day's 'official' price.