face value

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Strategy’s Stretch preferred stock is trading at $88, over 10% below its $100 face value, resulting in a 13% current yield.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

But let’s take the article at face value.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2026

The first was listed at £1,898, that's £2,183 including the Fifa fee - so comes in four times face value of £523.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

At the time, typical shares were issued with a face value of $100 each, known as par value.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

This is difficult because there exists, all around us, an apparatus urging us to accept American innocence at face value and not to inquire too much.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates