shadow stock
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Virtual stock having a calculated value, without real-world fluctuations, used to motivate and compensate employees.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The IRS characterized the plan as a classic phantom stock or shadow stock plan. Under the plan, the corporation would grant “units” to certain employees, officers, and directors."
- "In addition, the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) scanned its list of "shadow stocks"—smallish companies with relatively low coverage by financial analysts—for those with price-earnings ratios of less than 20 and an annual growth rate in earnings per share during the past five years of more than 20%. From the shadow stocks meeting these criteria, we chose several other companies to profile."
- "Table 1.8 shows a data set containing information for 25 of the shadow stocks tracked by the American Association of Individual Investors. Shadow stocks are common stocks of smaller companies that are not closely followed by Wall Street analysts."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Finance.
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
phantom stock
unit stock