MEAN RETURN
- Securities analysis: The average expected value of all the likely returns of an investment or portfolio, given all the potential outcomes are considered. To compute the mean return, estimate the probability of every possible return and get the weighted average of these returns. Also called expected return.
- Capital budgeting: The average value of the probability distribution of potential returns.
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