valuations

plural of valuation
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as in values
the amount of money for which something will find a buyer the final auction bid was still less than the minimum valuation that we had specified as acceptable, so the painting was withdrawn

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Recent Examples of valuations Kim said valuations and earnings were never seriously in doubt during the semiconductor rout, which was instead driven by technical factors and fund flows. Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026 Their values were not separated by more than $300 million in any of the first six iterations of Sportico’s NBA team valuations. Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2026 McKinsey has found the same divide showing up in valuations, with top-quartile net-retention performers commanding far richer revenue multiples than the bottom quartile. Abhishek Yadav, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Sportico released its latest NFL franchise valuations, which had America’s Team unsurprisingly retaining the top spot. Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Aug. 2026 At some point, though, the divergence between valuations and economic fundamentals becomes increasingly hard to ignore. John Cassidy, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 Tech stocks in Asia and the United States have swung wildly in recent weeks, at times wiping out billions of dollars as investors question whether the AI boom can justify the sky-high valuations. Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for valuations
Noun
  • The heirs have submitted appraisals valuing the painting at roughly $20 million when the lawsuit was filed in 2014.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2026
  • Some information can be gleaned from such appraisals, like what shape the recovered debris is in, what degree of temperatures they were exposed to.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 22 July 2026
Noun
  • Content creator online reviews of hotels, resorts, cruises, restaurants, and airline flights, often with impressive production values, can generate hundreds of thousands, and even millions, of views.
    Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Venus, planet of money and values, in your 2nd House of Resources opposes nebulous Neptune in your 8th House of Intimacy, so costs need clear language.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • But the downsides of the banking surge go beyond the predictably punishing schedule and the unexpected career limitations (some estimates suggest that only 10% of analysts end up working outside financial services).
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Some estimates were too imprecise to support a firm conclusion, and previous longitudinal studies have reported links between loneliness, isolation and physical illness.
    The Conversation US, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • That’s important for Cyprus because under an existing agreement, Cypriot energy consumers would have to put up as much as 63% of the cable’s construction cost, meaning a significant jump in electricity prices.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Ship traffic is unlikely to return to pre-war levels, of around 130 to 140 crossings a day, according to analysts, which could keep oil prices elevated for longer.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • But another said the president’s view of the economy is shaped in part by his frequent viewing of Fox News and Fox Business, which generally air pro-Trump assessments.
    Josh Wingrove, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Auditors generally verified repayments by reinterviewing workers who had participated in earlier assessments.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The History Johnson’s Bears Are Up Against Those 2013 Broncos faced one of the easiest schedules in the league – both by preseason evaluations and postseason assessments as well.
    John Cassillo, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The state has tracked data for 72 workers who have undergone lung transplants and 51 workers who have been referred for lung transplant evaluations.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Newsom and the analysts sometimes differ in their estimations.
    CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • And yet he’s built a collection that, by some estimations, ranks among the top in the country, homing in on grade-A examples of American masters—Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and with a particular focus on Basquiat.
    Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026

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