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 (2024-04-24), Powell Industries's share price is $149.23. Powell Industries's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $30.63. Hence, Powell Industries's PB Ratio of today is 4.87.
The historical rank and industry rank for Powell Industries's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
POWL'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.77 Med: 1.25 Max: 5.88
Current: 4.87
During the past 13 years, Powell Industries's highest PB Ratio was 5.88. The lowest was 0.77. And the median was 1.25.
POWL's PB Ratio is ranked worse than 84.59% of 2926
companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 1.89
vs POWL: 4.87
During the past 12 months, Powell Industries's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 21.40% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 3.30% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 1.20% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -1.40% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Powell Industries was 21.30% per year. The lowest was -7.60% per year. And the median was 8.40% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Powell Industries PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Powell Industries'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 Powell Industries's PB Ratio
For the Electrical Equipment & Parts subindustry, Powell Industries'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.
Powell Industries's PB Ratio Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Powell Industries's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Powell Industries's PB Ratio falls into.
Powell Industries 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.
Powell Industries'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.
Powell Industries PB Ratio Related Terms
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Powell Industries (Powell Industries) Business Description
Powell Industries Inc is a United States-based company that develops, designs, manufactures, and services custom-engineered equipment and systems for electrical energy distribution, control, and monitoring. The company's principal products comprise integrated power control room substations, custom-engineered modules, electrical houses, traditional and arc-resistant distribution switchgear and control gear, and so on. These products are applied in oil and gas refining, offshore oil and gas production, petrochemical, pipeline, terminal, mining and metals, light-rail traction power, electric utility, pulp and paper, and other heavy industrial markets. The company generates the majority of its sales from the United States.
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