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 (2024-04-18), Post Holdings's share price is $102.92. Post Holdings's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $65.00. Hence, Post Holdings's PB Ratio of today is 1.58.
The historical rank and industry rank for Post Holdings's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
POST'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.39 Med: 1.31 Max: 1.86
Current: 1.58
During the past 13 years, Post Holdings's highest PB Ratio was 1.86. The lowest was 0.39. And the median was 1.31.
POST's PB Ratio is ranked worse than 52.97% of 1786
companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 1.46
vs POST: 1.58
During the past 12 months, Post Holdings's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 11.70% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 14.00% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 7.70% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 1.30% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Post Holdings was 14.00% per year. The lowest was -8.60% per year. And the median was 0.40% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Post Holdings PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Post 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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Post Holdings Annual Data
Trend
Sep14
Sep15
Sep16
Sep17
Sep18
Sep19
Sep20
Sep21
Sep22
Sep23
PB Ratio
1.71
1.31
1.66
1.48
1.35
Post Holdings Quarterly Data
Mar19
Jun19
Sep19
Dec19
Mar20
Jun20
Sep20
Dec20
Mar21
Jun21
Sep21
Dec21
Mar22
Jun22
Sep22
Dec22
Mar23
Jun23
Sep23
Dec23
PB Ratio
1.55
1.65
1.34
1.35
1.35
Competitive Comparison
For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Post 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.
Post Holdings PB Ratio Distribution
For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Post Holdings's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Post Holdings's PB Ratio falls into.
Post 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.
Post Holdings'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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Post Holdings (Post Holdings) Business Description
Post Holdings Inc is an consumer packaged goods holding company. It operates in Post Consumer Brands which Includes branded and private label ready-to-eat cereals, Weetabix it Includes the businesses of Weetabix Limited, which Post acquired in July 2017 and which produces and distributes branded and private label RTE cereal, hot cereals and other cereal-based food products, Foodservice which Includes primarily egg and potato products in the foodservice and food ingredient channels from the businesses of MFI Holding Corporation, lastly Refrigerated Retail segment Provides refrigerated retail products, inclusive of side dishes, eggs and egg products, sausage, cheese and other dairy and refrigerated products.
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