How to Use present value in a Sentence

present value

noun
  • The price of the bond will be equal to the present value of the payment.
    Rick Miller, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • The Lump Sum is the present value of the monthly pensions.
    Leon Labrecque, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Add that to the cost in present value of any energy or other project.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 May 2022
  • The value of an asset equals the present value of the future cash flows available to the owner of that asset.
    David Trainer, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • In terms of net present value, that’s more than matched by a $1 billion bump in synergies.
    Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2019
  • Such a pick looks to have the rough equivalent of a very late first-round pick for this year’s draft, which makes sense factoring in the present value of the pick.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Sprint and T-Mobile expect the deal to bring cost synergies with a net present value of more than $43 billion.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The Cowen analysts used a discount rate of 10% to compute the present value of their free cash flow forecasts for Amazon.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Thus, on a present value basis the value may not be substantial.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • The proxy filing cites the present value of Tilden’s retirement package as $5.4 million.
    Author: Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Or, what is all the same thing, the present value of future policy-holder claims to be paid, plus the insurer’s profit.
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • Savvy appraisers know that the present value of an average solar system now adds more value to the home than the cost of the system.
    WSJ, 15 May 2018
  • Instead, its landlords are owed a present value of $1.9 billion in rent for those locations through the term of their leases.
    George Schultze, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • The ministry also sent out an order to announce revisions in the rates of the net present value that is levied for the diversion of forest lands.
    Mayank Aggarwal, Quartz, 10 Feb. 2022
  • This means that as interest rates go up, the present value of a company’s future earnings goes down.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 May 2022
  • Next on that list is last year's top pick, Hall, who has an easy delivery, as well as three pitches with present value and projection to dream on.
    Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 5 June 2018
  • When the risk-free rate is higher, an asset’s present value would be calculated to be lower.
    Ivan Illán, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • Slow or no economic growth doesn’t bode well for profits, and inflation eats away at the present value of future earnings.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Once again, that's based on a discounted present value model of future earnings.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2022
  • That’s more like $20 million based on the value of today’s dollars, a calculation known as net present value.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • What is a better estimate of your financial worth: the balance of your bank account, or the present value of your future earnings?
    Matthew Harris, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • At a capitalization rate of zero, the present value of a penny a year is infinite.
    WSJ, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Put on a more conservative 8 percent discount rate and tax the results, and the present value on the synergies gets cut in half and the gain on the disturbed stock prices falls to mid single-digits.
    Liam Denning | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2019
  • The forums let any staff present value propositions that demonstrated how their work was adding value to customers.
    Steve Denning, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Many investors value stocks based on the present value of companies’ future earnings.
    Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The model looks at the rate of earnings growth for a company over a certain period and then discounts those earnings into present value.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Discount rates are interest rates that businesses use to compute the present value of various cash flows.
    Mark Maurer, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The modern journalistic penchant for presenting value-laden claims as simple facts is — or ought to be — beyond the job description of the press.
    Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
  • First, investors might want a fatter return than 7.5% for the high-risk of owning Twitter, meaning its present value isn't really $41 billion but less.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 21 May 2022
  • The equations of quantum dynamics allow physicists to predict the future values of the wave function, given its present value.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2015

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