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China Distance Education Holdings (China Distance Education Holdings) PB Ratio : 4.22 (As of May. 11, 2024)


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What is China Distance Education Holdings 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 (2024-05-11), China Distance Education Holdings's share price is $9.73. China Distance Education Holdings's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2020 was $2.31. Hence, China Distance Education Holdings's PB Ratio of today is 4.22.

The historical rank and industry rank for China Distance Education Holdings's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

DL's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Education industry.
Industry Median: 1.5
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


China Distance Education Holdings PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for China Distance Education Holdings'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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China Distance Education Holdings PB Ratio Chart

China Distance Education Holdings Annual Data
Trend Sep11 Sep12 Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20
PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 9.40 4.53 6.23 2.51 4.16

China Distance Education Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20
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 2.51 3.52 3.81 4.53 4.16

Competitive Comparison of China Distance Education Holdings's PB Ratio

For the Education & Training Services subindustry, China Distance Education Holdings'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.


China Distance Education Holdings's PB Ratio Distribution in the Education Industry

For the Education industry and Consumer Defensive sector, China Distance Education Holdings's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where China Distance Education Holdings's PB Ratio falls into.



China Distance Education Holdings 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.

China Distance Education Holdings's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Sep. 2020)
=9.73/2.305
=4.22

* 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.


China Distance Education Holdings  (NYSE:DL) 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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China Distance Education Holdings (China Distance Education Holdings) Business Description

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Address
1 Zhichun Road, 18th Floor, Xueyuan International Tower, Haidian District, Beijing, CHN, 100083
China Distance Education Holdings Ltd provides online education in China. It focuses on professional education in accounting, healthcare, and engineering and construction industries and also other professional education courses such as online test preparation courses for judicial examination, for university students and online language courses as well as courses through its online open learning platform. The company operating segment includes Professional education services; Business start-up training services and Sales of learning simulation software. It derives the majority of its revenues from the Professional education services segment in the PRC.

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