A Geometric Brownian motion (occasionally, exponential Brownian motion and, hereafter, GBM) is a continuous-time stochastic process in which the logarithm of the randomly varying quantity follows a Brownian motion. It is appropriate to mathematical modelling of some phenomena in financial markets. It is used particularly in the field of option pricing because a quantity that follows a GBM may take any value strictly greater than zero. This is precisely the nature of a stock price.
A stochastic process St is said to follow a GBM if it satisfies the following stochastic differential equation:
The equation has a analytic solution: