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Present valueAnalyst

What a future amount is worth in today’s money.

What you’ll enter

  • Future amount
  • Discount rate per year
  • Years until received

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The formula

PV = FV ÷ (1 + r)ⁿ

Money received later is worth less than money today, because today’s money could be invested. The discount rate is the return you could earn elsewhere.