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), Metro Bancorp's share price is $28.19. Metro Bancorp's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was $19.98. Hence, Metro Bancorp's PB Ratio of today is 1.41.
The historical rank and industry rank for Metro Bancorp's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
METR's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Banks industry.
Industry Median: 0.86 * Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Metro Bancorp PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Metro Bancorp'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.
Competitive Comparison of Metro Bancorp's PB Ratio
For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Metro Bancorp'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.
Metro Bancorp's PB Ratio Distribution in the Banks Industry
For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Metro Bancorp's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Metro Bancorp's PB Ratio falls into.
Metro Bancorp 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.
Metro Bancorp's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:
* 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.
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.
Metro Bancorp PB Ratio Related Terms
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Metro Bancorp (Metro Bancorp) Business Description
Metro Bancorp Inc was incorporated as Pennsylvania Commerce Bancorp, Inc. on April 23, 1999 and became an active bank holding company on July 1, 1999. The Company provides full banking services through its subsidiary, Metro Bank. The Bank provides retail and commercial banking services for consumers, and small and mid-sized companies in Pennsylvania. The Bank's lending and investment activities are funded mainly by retail deposits gathered through its retail store office network. It offers lending and depository services from its main store in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, and it's thirty-two other full-service stores located in Cumberland, Dauphin, York, Berks, Lancaster and Lebanon Counties, Pennsylvania. The Bank provides various retail banking services and products including free personal checking accounts and business checking accounts, regular savings accounts, money market accounts, interest checking accounts, fixed rate certificates of deposit (CDs), individual retirement accounts, club accounts, debit card services, online banking (including bill payment services, a peer to peer payment service via Popmoney, external Account to Account transfers and same day bill payment capabilities), mobile banking, gift cards, safe deposit facilities and automated teller facilities. Its services also include lending activities including commercial and industrial, owner occupied real estate, commercial construction and land development and commercial real estate loans, consumer loan programs, home equity lines of credit, overdraft checking protection, consumer and business credit cards. The Bank also offers construction loans and permanent mortgages for homes. The Bank is a participant in the Small Business Administration (SBA) Loan Program and is an approved lender for qualified applicants. The Bank competes with local commercial banks as well as various regionally based commercial banks. The Bank competes with respect to its lending activities as well as in attracting demand, savings and time deposits with other commercial banks, savings banks, insurance companies, regulated small loan companies, credit unions and with issuers of commercial paper and other securities such as shares in money market funds. The Company is subject to the jurisdiction of the SEC and of state securities commissions for matters relating to the offering and sale of its securities and is subject to the SEC's rules and regulations relating to periodic reporting, reporting to shareholders, proxy solicitation and insider trading.
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