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AZ Electronic Materials (FRA:OAZ) PB Ratio : 3.65 (As of May. 05, 2024)


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What is AZ Electronic Materials PB Ratio?

The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2024-05-05), AZ Electronic Materials's share price is €4.91. AZ Electronic Materials's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was €1.35. Hence, AZ Electronic Materials's PB Ratio of today is 3.65.

The historical rank and industry rank for AZ Electronic Materials's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:OAZ' s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.87   Med: 2.62   Max: 3.61
Current: 3.47

During the past 5 years, AZ Electronic Materials's highest PB Ratio was 3.61. The lowest was 1.87. And the median was 2.62.

FRA:OAZ's PB Ratio is not ranked
in the Chemicals industry.
Industry Median: 1.61 vs FRA:OAZ: 3.47

During the past 12 months, AZ Electronic Materials's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -8.20% per year.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


AZ Electronic Materials PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for AZ Electronic Materials's PB Ratio 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.

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AZ Electronic Materials PB Ratio Chart

AZ Electronic Materials Annual Data
Trend Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
PB Ratio
- 1.76 - 2.93 3.48

AZ Electronic Materials Semi-Annual Data
Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13
PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial - - 2.93 2.71 3.49

Competitive Comparison of AZ Electronic Materials's PB Ratio

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, AZ Electronic Materials's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio 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.


AZ Electronic Materials's PB Ratio Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, AZ Electronic Materials's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where AZ Electronic Materials's PB Ratio falls into.



AZ Electronic Materials PB Ratio Calculation

The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.

AZ Electronic Materials's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Dec. 2013)
=4.91/1.345
=3.65

* 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.

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.


AZ Electronic Materials  (FRA:OAZ) PB Ratio Explanation

Unlike valuation ratios relative to the earning power such as PE Ratio, PE Ratio without NRI, PS Ratio, Price-to-Operating-Cash-Flow , or Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, the PB Ratio measures the valuation of the stock relative to the underlying asset of the company.

The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.


Be Aware

Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.


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AZ Electronic Materials (FRA:OAZ) Business Description

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AZ Electronic Materials SA is a Luxembourg- based company engaged in producing and supplying specialty chemicals. It focuses on three business areas Integrated Circuits which involves dielectrics, underlayers, yield enhancers, CMP slurries and pattern enhancers, Display Materials and AZ products such as specialty chemicals and materials used in integrated circuits and devise as well as flat panel displays and photolithographic printing.

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