high-valuation stock

high-valuation stock definition - finance
A stock that is expensively priced in comparison to stock in other companies in the same industry. Typically, when a stock is referred to as high-valuation, its price-earnings ratio (P/E ratio) is higher than other companies in its industry.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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