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In this area, assisted listening devices and complimentary sensory bags with weighted lap pads and tracking devices will also be available for check-out. — Natalia E. Contreras, Indianapolis Star, "Your guide to the Spark!Fishers festival: Fourth of July fireworks, musical acts and road closures," 25 June 2019 His trumpet soothes like a weighted blanket, and the slightly funky rhythm tracks decelerate an anxious heartbeat. — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, "The best music to help you fall asleep," 26 July 2019 In 2018, 79% of Brazilians watched music videos on YouTube, compared with the global weighted average of 44%, according to MIDiA. In that same year, 65% of Brazilians used YouTube on a weekly basis, compared with 30% for Spotify. — Shasta Darlington, Billboard, "From Anitta to IZA, Why YouTube Is Brazil's Biggest Starmaker," 18 July 2019 Consider white noise, relaxing music, blackout shades, or even a weighted blanket to help ease your child into sleep. — Katie Hurley, Washington Post, "Kidsâ anxiety can spike during the summer. Hereâs why, and what parents can do to help.," 20 June 2019 However, there are ways to defeat thisâlike attaching a weighted object to the steering wheel. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "People keep spotting Teslas with snoozing drivers on the freeway," 18 June 2019 At this small campus in rural southern Ohio, there is a dedicated sensory room stocked with weighted blankets, chewable toys and exercise balls. — Dan Levin, New York Times, "Inside the Elementary School Where Drug Addiction Sets the Curriculum," 12 June 2019 Currently, men's basketball plays a weighted schedule with best-possible paths to the postseason in mind by playing seven of 11 opponents twice and the four remaining opponents once each. — Fletcher Page, Cincinnati.com, "Three questions: How UConn's move to the Big East affects Cincinnati Bearcats, AAC," 5 June 2019 Elliott Management's Elliott Advisors Limited is paying $6.50 per share for Barnes & Noble, which represents a 43% premium from its 10-day weighted average closing price as of June 5. — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, "Barnes & Noble acquired: Elliott Management buys bookstore chain, plans 'growth strategy'," 25 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'weighted.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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weighted
adjectiveFinancial Definition of weighted
What It Is
Weighted refers to the mathematical practice of adjusting the components of an index to reflect the importance of certain characteristics.
How It Works
Here is information about five stocks.
If we wanted to create an unweighted index of the price performance of these five companies, we might average their stock prices and call it a day (i.e., we would calculate the average as $8.60).
However, this unweighted average doesnât take into account the issuersâ actual sizes or the number of shares outstanding (in other words, without reflecting the issuersâ true heft in the economy). The tiny companies can sway the index as much as the more significant companies. Accordingly, if one of the higher-priced stocks (Company D, in our example) has a huge price increase, the index is more likely to increase even if the other, more meaningful companies in the index decline in value at the same time.
Thus, we could create a weighted index to give more weight to the bigger issuers. We could do this by multiplying the share price by the shares outstanding, summing the totals, and then dividing by the total shares outstanding:
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Why It Matters
In the finance world, some indexes are weighted and some are not. It is important to understand how indexes are weighted so that you can understand what influences those indexes, what the index really conveys, and whether the index is relevant to your investment objectives.
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