A stock image in publishing is an image that is commercially available (see stock photography).
A stock image in finance is a stock valuation coefficient based on the "stock profile" (growth, defensive, emerging, cyclical, distressed, turnaround...), as it is really or as investors perceive it (market-based valuation). This concept is linked to Behavioral finance.
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