Public Offering Price (POP)

POP can mean a few things.

If a company is selling stocks or securities to the public, call it MulberryBush.com, the POP is the price at which they are selling the stocks. This price is what made the offering attractive enough to get investors to open their wallets.

In the mutual fund world, the POP is the NAV (Net Asset Value) plus the commissions or loads. It's the cost of buying shares of a mutual fund—and that cost goes up and down daily.

So those are two POPs. And then there's the whole weasel thing.