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Student Transportation (Student Transportation) PB Ratio : 5.91 (As of Apr. 26, 2024)


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What is Student Transportation 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 (2024-04-26), Student Transportation's share price is $7.50. Student Transportation's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2017 was $1.27. Hence, Student Transportation's PB Ratio of today is 5.91.

The historical rank and industry rank for Student Transportation's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

STB's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Transportation industry.
Industry Median: 1.31
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Student Transportation PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Student Transportation'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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Student Transportation PB Ratio Chart

Student Transportation Annual Data
Trend Jun08 Jun09 Jun10 Jun11 Jun12 Jun13 Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17
PB Ratio
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Student Transportation Quarterly Data
Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17
PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.14 4.13 4.54 5.37 4.84

Competitive Comparison of Student Transportation's PB Ratio

For the Railroads subindustry, Student Transportation'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.


Student Transportation's PB Ratio Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Student Transportation's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Student Transportation's PB Ratio falls into.



Student Transportation 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.

Student Transportation's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Dec. 2017)
=7.50/1.269
=5.91

* 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.


Student Transportation  (NAS:STB) 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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Student Transportation (Student Transportation) Business Description

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Student Transportation Inc is a Canadian company which provides school transportation and management services to public and private schools in both the United States and Canada. Services provided by the company are managed transportation which covers driver recruiting and training, safety, vehicle maintenance, insurance and routing/scheduling, special needs transportation with specially equipped buses and bus routes to specialized schools, charter services for special events and extracurricular activities, Direct-To-Parent school bus service. The company operates its business in two segments namely transportation segment and an oil and gas segment in US and Canada. The majority of the company's revenue comes from transportation business in the US.

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