capital gain
Sold asset profit
Capital gain is profit from selling an asset for more than you paid for it.
The term appears most often in financial and tax contexts: She realized a capital gain when she sold the stock.
Capital gains may be taxed differently depending on how long the asset was held—short-term or long-term.
The opposite is a capital loss.
Impartial treatment or ownership value
- valuationAssessment of monetary worth
- growthIncrease in size
- markupAdded percentage for profit
- windfallUnanticipated lucky gain
surplus · upswing · upturn · bull market · escalation · paper profit · price increase · holding period
Federal tax collector
- 1040Annual federal filing
- tax rateGovernment's claimed share
- short-termOf limited duration
- long-termLasting extended period
carryover · exemption · deductions · brackets · liability · taxpayer · filing · audit
Collected works or assets
- securitiesTradeable financial assets
- stocksOwnership stakes or inventory
- bondsTies that unite
- equitiesOwnership stakes in corporations
real estate · funds · mutual funds · ETF · asset allocation · diversification · brokerage · shareholder
equity
Impartial treatment or ownership value
windfall · surplus · upswing · upturn · bull market · escalation · paper profit · price increase · holding period · fair market value
IRS
Federal tax collector
- 1040Annual federal filing
- tax rateGovernment's claimed share
- short-termOf limited duration
long-term · carryover · exemption · deductions · brackets · liability · taxpayer · filing · audit · tax code
portfolio
Collected works or assets
- securitiesTradeable financial assets
- stocksOwnership stakes or inventory
- bondsTies that unite
equities · real estate · funds · mutual funds · ETF · asset allocation · diversification · brokerage · shareholder · market value
- business termsfranchising, revenue stream, board meeting, gross margin, markdown
- financial resultsprofit, loss, return, earnings, dividend
- payoutspayout, disbursement, dividend, cash prize, reimbursement
- financial gainsprofit, revenue, returns, earnings, income
- tax terms1040, W-2, 1099, W-4, tax refund
- taxable incomedividend, bonus, dividend income, rental income, bond interest
capital gaincapital loss
Selling asset below purchase price
depreciation · write-down · investment loss · paper loss · loss
capital gaindividend
Corporate profit share
dividend income · ordinary income · interest income · yield · earned income
gain, capital, gains, capitalize, capitalization, capitalized, capitalizing, human capital, social capital