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), GFI Group's share price is $6.16. GFI Group's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was $1.50. Hence, GFI Group's PB Ratio of today is 4.11.
The historical rank and industry rank for GFI Group's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
GFIG's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Capital Markets industry.
Industry Median: 1.28 * Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
GFI Group PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for GFI Group'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 Capital Markets subindustry, GFI Group'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.
GFI Group's PB Ratio Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry
For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, GFI Group's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where GFI Group's PB Ratio falls into.
GFI Group 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.
GFI Group'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.
GFI Group PB Ratio Related Terms
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GFI Group Inc was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware in 2001. The Company provides wholesale brokerage services, clearing services and electronic execution and trading support products for financial markets. It provide brokerage and trade execution services, clearing services, market data and trading platform and other software products to institutional customers in markets for a range of fixed income, financial, equity and commodity instruments. The Company provides execution services for its institutional wholesale customers by either matching their trading needs with counterparties having reciprocal interests or directing their orders to an exchange or other trading venue. The Company offers its customers a hybrid brokerage approach, combining a range of telephonic and electronic trade execution services, depending on the nature of the products and the specific needs of its customers. The Company operates in five business segments: Americas Brokerage; Europe, the Middle East and Africa Brokerage; Asia Brokerage, Clearing and Backed Trading and All Other. Its brokerage operations provide brokerage services in four product categories: fixed income, financial, equity and commodity. It's Clearing and Backed Trading segment encompasses its clearing, risk management, settlement and other back-office services, as well as the capital the Company provide to start-up trading groups, small hedge funds, market-makers and individual traders. The All Other segment captures revenues and costs that are not directly assignable to the brokerage or clearing and backed trading operating business segments, consisting of Company's corporate business activities and operations and commercial revenues from sales and licensing of trading systems software, analytic and market data. The Company offers products and services including Fixed Income Products, Financial Products, Equity Products, Commodity Products, Clearing and Settlement Services, and Software, Analytic and Market Data. The Company's competitors include ICAP Plc, Tullett Prebon Plc, CME, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Eurex and Euronext. The Company's businesses are subject to extensive regulation by government and self-regulatory organizations both in the United States and abroad.
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