Information Coefficient (IC)

Information Coefficient (IC)
The correlation between predicted and actual stock returns, sometimes used to measure the value of a financial analyst. An IC of 1.0 indicates a perfect linear relationship between predicted and actual returns, while an IC of 0.0 indicates no linear relationship. The New York Times Financial Glossary

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