stock-turnover ratio
stock-turnover ratio
a measure of a firm's stockholdings that expresses the firm's SALES REVENUE as a ratio of its period-end STOCK, to show how many times stocks are turned over in sales during a period's trading. See also STOCK CONTROL, STOCKHOLDING MODEL.Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson