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 (2024-04-26), Alteva's share price is $4.70. Alteva's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was $3.59. Hence, Alteva's PB Ratio of today is 1.31.
The historical rank and industry rank for Alteva's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
ALTV's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Telecommunication Services industry.
Industry Median: 1.715 * Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Alteva PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Alteva'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.
For the Telecom Services subindustry, Alteva'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.
Alteva's PB Ratio Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry
For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Alteva's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Alteva's PB Ratio falls into.
Alteva 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.
Alteva'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.
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Alteva Inc was incorporated in New York on January 16, 1902. The Company, together with its subsidiaries, is a provider of hosted Unified Communications as a Service "UCaaS" that enhances business productivity and efficiency. Its UCaaS solution integrates and optimizes cloud-based technologies and business applications to deliver a comprehensive voice, video and collaboration service for the office and mobile workforce. Its cloud-based UCaaS solutions are focused on medium, large and enterprise markets, which are defined as 20-500 users per location. The Company also operates as a regional Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier "ILEC" in southern Orange County, New York and northern New Jersey. The Company operates in two segments; Unified Communications and Telephone. Its Telephone segment provides local and toll telephone service, high-speed broadband and fiber Internet access services and satellite video services to residential and business customers. Its Unified Communications Solutions offers a comprehensive managed solution including hosted voice and hybrid Session Initiation Protocol trunks, with integrated instant messaging, presence, unified messaging and video along with local, long distance and international communications services. Its Business Productivity Application integration is fully integrated with a variety of business productivity applications including Microsoft Office, and Google Apps for Business. Its Audio Conferencing and Web Collaboration Solutions offers a range of collaboration solutions including screen sharing and group audio and web conferencing for over 3,000 participants. Its Access Solutions offers a range of access solutions for businesses ranging from T1s to fiber connections and MPLS circuits and it works closely with various providers to coordinate installation and support the connectivity. Its Wholesale Services offers a packaged solution including infrastructure and services. Its Network Design and Management develop and support the implementation of customized network and voice solutions. Its Local network services include traditional dial tone that is used to make or to receive voice, fax or analog modem calls from a residence or business. Its Network access services connect a customer's telephone or other equipment to the transmission facilities of other carriers that provides long distance and other communications services. Its directory service group publishes and sells yellow and white page advertising in both print and online. The Company competes with both premise-based voice and video providers such as Avaya and Cisco, as well as cloud-based voice and UC providers such as 8x8, Inc., Verizon and Comcast; its directory services competes with Yellow Book, Verizon, Frontier, and CenturyLink; and it broadband internet and dial-up internet services competes with Cablevision in New York and Service Electric in New Jersey.
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