Price / Book

Market capitalization divided by the accounting value of shareholders' equity.

How to read it

Most useful for banks and asset-heavy businesses; for software and brands, the valuable assets are not on the balance sheet.

How to use it

Most useful for banks, insurers and asset-heavy businesses.

In Kereon

Kereon shows this figure as its data vendor publishes it and does not recompute it, so the vendor's exact inputs — which period's earnings, which balance sheet, which adjustments — are not visible here. The calculation above is the standard definition.

Also called: price / book, p/b, price to book.

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