Blockade Discount refers to a discount that business valuators apply to a block of shares in a listed and publicly trading enterprise on transactions that can distort the market. For example, if a substantial number of issued or outstanding shares of a listed enterprise is to be offloaded onto the market at a certain time the share volume of the shares being offloaded will create a liquidity event; supply will exceed demand resulting in a fall in the price of the shares as a result of short term oversupply. To address the dampening effect of such a transaction on the price and values of the shares, business valuators apply discounts known as the “blockade discount” to adjust the value of the subject shares for the reduced liquidity triggered by the transaction.