internal rate of return

internal rate of return definition - finance
The discount rate at which the present value of future cash flows equals the current market price of the investment or opportunity. Also called dollar-weighted rate of return.

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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