pencil out

Meaning

Verb

Of an investment, to make sense financially or to be expected to generate the desired returns
To roughly calculate the expected returns of an investment

Origin

From pencil + out (possibly based on or influenced by work out), the idea being that rough calculations are temporarily written in pencil rather than permanently written in pen.

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