designer491/Getty Images The internal rate of return (IRR) is a way to find what discount rate would cause the net present value (NPV) of a project to be $0—in other words, to find the highest ...

This year the top three are all higher than 120%. It doesn’t match the boisterous returns of the 2008 table – headed by HCI with 153.1%, but latest IRR returns are nonetheless high. That’s probably ...

Two very common methodologies are the internal rate of return (IRR) and net present value (NPV). Each of these approaches produces a single number that management can use as an estimate of the ...