misvaluation

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noun

inaccurate valuation

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounmisvaluation (countable and uncountable, plural misvaluations)

plural misvaluations

  1. countableuncountableinaccurate valuation

    Second, we investigate whether subsequent performance can be explained by market misvaluation before the SEO announcement date.

    2013, Philip Brown, Financial Accounting and Equity Markets, page 146
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    Misvaluation contributes to market inefficiencies: the winning bidder may not be the one with the greatest synergy, and the purchase price paid may exceed the target's true value.

    2021, Donald DePamphilis, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, page 10

    We can observe, see Fig. 1, that for both naive and sophisticated modes the misvaluation and its subsequent updating may lead to significant changes in trading frequencies but not for trading prices in most of the scenarios considered.

    2022, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Marcin Czupryna, “On the Impact of Misvaluation on Bilateral Trading”, in Marcin Czupryna, Bogumił Kamiński, editor, Advances in Social Simulation, page 311

Origin

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Chicago

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