How to Use nominal value in a Sentence

nominal value

noun
  • The nominal value of the deal had risen along with Nvidia’s share price amid booming semiconductor demand.
    Robert Wall, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Refinance, or lose your home Funds have been snapping up secured loans for as low as 25 percent of their nominal value.
    Stelios Bouras, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The stock market values the bank at less than half of the nominal value of its assets, an indication that investors believe there are hidden risks.
    Jack Ewing, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The DVDs, flash drives, digital frames, and iPads, as included in the wedding packages purchased by the taxpayer’s clients, were of nominal value.
    Roxanne Bland, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • While this month's expiry is the smallest of 2021 in terms of nominal value, some bitcoin and crypto market watchers think the monthly options expiry can exacerbate trends affecting the market.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • So the nominal value of equities and housing stays high even if the real value is adjusted by the depreciating value of money itself.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • All of our prizes are basically only of symbolic, nominal value.
    Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Perhaps crypto does have some nominal value based on its dark money usage, or collectability along the lines of Beanie Babies, but from a financial viewpoint that value is hardly worth considering.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • Frontier argues that despite its offer’s lower nominal value, the share portion allows Spirit investors to further benefit should shares of the combined company climb.
    Peter Eavis and Lauren Hirsch, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
  • Consequently, over time, more people immersed in those values rose to greater positions of influence, and the party’s actual behavior moved into closer aligned with its nominal values.
    Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Importantly, the goal is to target that nominal value while letting prices adjust – up or down, even if that results in inflation falling below zero – so that monetary policy distorts the economy as little as possible.
    Norbert Michel, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022

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