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Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A (LSE:SIAG) PB Ratio : 3.28 (As of May. 17, 2024)


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What is Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A 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 (2024-05-17), Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A's share price is £4.00. Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2013 was £1.22. Hence, Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A's PB Ratio of today is 3.28.

The historical rank and industry rank for Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:SIAG's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Asset Management industry.
Industry Median: 0.95
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

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Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A'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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Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A PB Ratio Chart

Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A Annual Data
Trend Dec10 Dec11 Dec12
PB Ratio
0.88 0.87 0.82

Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A Semi-Annual Data
Dec12 Jun13
PB Ratio 0.82 0.92

Competitive Comparison of Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A's PB Ratio

For the Asset Management subindustry, Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A'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.


Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A's PB Ratio Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A's PB Ratio falls into.



Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A 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.

Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Jun. 2013)
=4.00/1.218
=3.28

* 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.


Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A  (LSE:SIAG) 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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Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A (LSE:SIAG) Business Description

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Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) A Ltd was incorporated on 18 January 2010 and is an investment company. It aims to provide investors with capital growth through its investment in the Investment Partnership. Its investment policy is to invest in one target company at a time.

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