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stock price

stock price

63 3.0
A number that shows how much one share of a company costs when people buy or sell it
  • noun
  • /stɑk praɪs/
translation icon : precio de la acción
  • As soon as Donald Trump won the election, Tesla stock price doubled.
  • company's stock price
  • firm's stock price
  • issuer's stock price

As soon as Donald Trump won the election, Tesla stock price doubled.

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Examples

  • Stock price is up and your rivals are worried.

  • The company's stock price reached an all-time high after the successful product launch.

  • I said before that stock prices were not like options.

  • Now, you really wanna talk to me about stock prices?

  • The third time it went out, weeks later, the stock price went down $2.5 billion in total capital.

    Academic text (2000)
  • You control the trade unions, influence interest rates and stock prices.

  • Stock prices went up by a factor of nine.

  • What the press and Wall Street are doing to Apple's stock price should be illegal.

    Blog text (2)
  • The major concern for covered call writers is the stock price dropping in value.

    Blog text (5)
  • The company's stock price has doubled since the filing of the first state lawsuit in 1994.

    Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

price
vsstock price
1.0

The amount of money you must pay to buy something

is focused on the trading value of company shares at a given time
market value
vsstock price
40 2.8

The price something sells for in a market with many buyers and sellers

is the amount for company shares at the current trading time
market price
vsstock price
21 2.5

The price people pay for something like shares or houses when it is bought and sold freely

is specific to trading of company shares at a particular moment
selling price
vsstock price
6 2.7

The price at which something is sold to buyers

is used for trading company shares at a specific time rather than general offers

How Expensive

stock price
63 3.0
low price
52 1.0

Surface Forms

stock price singular
stock prices plural

Morphology

stock + price

The meaning 'the price of a company's share' is directly and compositionally derived from 'stock' (a share) + 'price' (money required to buy an item). This noun‑noun composition is a common, cross‑linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Stock price comes from the idea of stock as a company's goods or supply and price as the cost of an item. Imagine a shop where each item on the shelf has a tag with a cost. A company's shares are like those items, so the stock price is 'the price of a share' today.