market value

noun

: the price at which something can be sold : the price that buyers are willing to pay for something

determining the car's market value

The house sold below market value.

Examples of market value in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Land downtown is a hot commodity, but the city negotiated a great deal to purchase the property for about $7 million below market value. — Lena Guerrero Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026

Bearish observers of the AI industry may have gotten their first taste of things to come on Tuesday, as a broad stock market scare wiped nearly $1 trillion in market value off the books. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 25 June 2026

The combined market value of just five companies—Nvidia, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon—exceeds $20 trillion, more than the combined GDP of Europe’s five largest economies. — Michael Posner, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

That wiped out about $265 billion of its market value, which remains above $4 trillion. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 25 June 2026

Rhymes for market value

• eigenvalue
• undervalue

Kids Definition

market value

noun

: a price at which both buyers and sellers are willing to do business

Legal Definition

market value

noun

1

: the price at which a buyer is ready and willing to buy and a seller is ready and willing to sell

2

: market price sense 1