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
• The present value of those future profits are worth less as yields rise.
  — Fortune, 28 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
• However, the net present value of down time, upgrades, and maintenance must be calculated into the $65k number.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2014

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024