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Quote

The highest price that a buyer is willing to pay for a security and the lowest price that a seller is willing to receive. The quote is displayed on a ticker and provides investors with the current price for each security.

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Quotation (Quote). On a stock market, a quotation combines the highest bid to buy and the lowest ask to sell a stock.

For example, if the quotation on DaveCo stock is "20 to 20.07," it means that the highest price that any buyer wants to pay is $20, and the lowest price that any seller wants to take is $20.07.

How that spread is resolved depends on whether the stock is traded on an auction market, such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), or on a dealer market, such as the Nasdaq Stock Market, where the price is negotiated by market makers.

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Quote

What Does Quote Mean?

(1) The last price at which a security or commodity traded, meaning the most recent price on which a buyer and a seller agreed and at which some amount of the asset was transacted. (2) The bid or ask quotes are the most current prices and quantities at which the shares can be bought or sold. The bid quote shows the price and quantity at which a current buyer is willing to purchase the shares, and the ask quote shows what a current participant is willing to sell the shares for. This also is known as an asset's quoted price.

Investopedia explains Quote

(1) Price quotes for stocks and bonds change throughout the trading day as new transactions occur one after another in a continual stream of trades. When one looks up a stock quote for a particular company, one is looking at the most recent price at which a trade was executed successfully for that particular security. (2) Potential investors or sellers are more concerned about the bid and ask quotes because they reflect the prices at which the stock can be bought or sold, whereas the price quote as described in the first definition shows the price at which the stock traded most recently.

Related Terms:
• Ask
• Bid
• Bid-Ask Spread
• Security
• Volume