paper profit

paper profit definition - finance
The extent to which a current market value of a holding exceeds the value at which it was purchased. A paper profit is an unrealized profit that exists only on paper.

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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