Since intangibles such as goodwill cannot be sold when the company liquidates, tangible book value per share is considered more accurate in reflecting how much shareholders will receive when the company liquidates.
American DG Energy Tangible Book per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for American DG Energy's Tangible Book per Share can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of American DG Energy's Tangible Book per Share
For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, American DG Energy's Price-to-Tangible-Book, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Tangible-Book data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
American DG Energy's Price-to-Tangible-Book Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, American DG Energy's Price-to-Tangible-Book distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where American DG Energy's Price-to-Tangible-Book falls into.
American DG Energy Tangible Book per Share Calculation
American DG Energy's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 is calculated as
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Theoretically it is what the shareholders will receive if the company is liquidated. Total equity is a balance sheet item and equal to total assets less total liabilities of the company. Since intangibles such as goodwill cannot be sold when the company liquidates, tangible book value per share is considered more accurate in reflecting how much shareholders will receive when the company liquidates.
American DG Energy (AMEX:ADGE) Tangible Book per Share Explanation
Usually a company's book value and Tangible Book per Share may not reflect its true value. The assets may be carried on the balance sheets at the original cost minus depreciation. This may underestimate the true economic values of the assets. It also may over-estimate their true economic value because the assets can become obsolete.
For financial companies such as banks and insurance companies, their assets may be reported in current market value of the assets owned. Book values of financial companies are more accurate indicator of the economic value of the company.
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American DG Energy (American DG Energy) Business Description
American DG Energy Inc is a Delaware corporation was incorporated on July 24, 2001. The Company installs, owns, operates and maintains complete DG systems, or energy systems, and other complementary systems at customer sites and sells electricity, hot water, heat and cooling energy under long-term contracts at prices guaranteed to the customer to be below conventional utility rates. As of December 31, 2013, the Company had installed 109 energy systems. The energy systems are generally owned by the Company and are installed in its customers' buildings. Each month the Company obtains readings from energy meters to determine the amount of energy produced for each customer. Its business is selling energy in the form of electricity, heat, hot water and cooling to its customers under long-term sales agreements. In the United Kingdom, it competes with Cogenco Limited, a subsidiary of Dalkia PLC, an alternative energy company with customers in the 50-500 kW range, ENER-G Holdings plc and Jenbacher, a subsidiary of General Electric Company. Other companies in the same market are Clarke Energy Ltd, EC Power Systems and Baxi-SenerTec UK. In Belgium, CHP equipment manufacturers are non-Belgian companies, including CogenGreen S.A., Capstone Turbine Corporation and Cummins Power Generation Inc., which are its primary competitors in the 50-500 kW range. In Spain, it competes with Baxi-SenerTec UK, MicroPower Europe, Guascor Power, Cummins Power Generation Inc., Icogen SA and Pasch y Cia SA. Icogen SA, based in Barcelona, is a Spanish supplier for systems below 500 kW. The Company is subject to extensive government regulation.
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