Accretion
Accretion describes gradual value growth, including bond discount accretion, asset value increases, and earnings-per-share effects.
Investment performance terms for appreciation, capital appreciation, price appreciation, annual growth rates, AAGR, and CAGR.
Growth Rates and Appreciation terms explain how investment results are measured, compared, annualized, compounded, distributed, or translated into yield language.
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| Term | Use it for |
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| Accretion | A term page that narrows this branch to a specific investing concept, evidence source, or decision point. |
| Annual Growth Rate | A measurement term for comparing investment income, growth, or total performance. |
| Appreciation | A measurement term for comparing investment income, growth, or total performance. |
| Average Annual Growth Rate (AAGR) | A measurement term for comparing investment income, growth, or total performance. |
| Capital Appreciation | A measurement term for comparing investment income, growth, or total performance. |
| Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) | A measurement term for comparing investment income, growth, or total performance. |
| Price Appreciation | A measurement term for comparing investment income, growth, or total performance. |
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Accretion describes gradual value growth, including bond discount accretion, asset value increases, and earnings-per-share effects.
Annual growth rate measures the year-over-year percentage change in an investment, asset value, revenue base, or other financial metric.
Appreciation is an increase in the market value of an asset, currency, or investment over time.
Average annual growth rate averages yearly growth rates without compounding, making it simpler but less precise than CAGR.
Capital appreciation is the increase in an asset's market value and forms the price-gain component of investment return.
Compound annual growth rate converts cumulative growth into a smoothed annual rate that assumes compounding over the measurement period.
Price appreciation is the investment return caused by market price increases, excluding dividends, interest, or other income.