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Primus Guaranty (Primus Guaranty) PB Ratio : (As of Apr. 25, 2024)


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What is Primus Guaranty 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 (2024-04-25), Primus Guaranty's share price is $0.12. Primus Guaranty's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2011 was $-4.18. Hence, Primus Guaranty's PB Ratio of today is .

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

PRSG's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Credit Services industry.
Industry Median: 1.015
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Primus Guaranty PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Primus Guaranty'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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Primus Guaranty PB Ratio Chart

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Primus Guaranty Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Primus Guaranty's PB Ratio

For the Credit Services subindustry, Primus Guaranty'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.


Primus Guaranty's PB Ratio Distribution in the Credit Services Industry

For the Credit Services industry and Financial Services sector, Primus Guaranty's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Primus Guaranty's PB Ratio falls into.



Primus Guaranty 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.

Primus Guaranty's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Dec. 2011)
=0.12/-4.18
=

* 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.


Primus Guaranty  (OTCPK:PRSG) 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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Primus Guaranty (Primus Guaranty) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Clarendon House, 2 Church Street, Hamilton, BMU, HM 11
Bermuda-domiciled Primus Guaranty provides credit protection on debt instruments through credit swaps sold by its subsidiary, Primus Financial. The firm is also attempting to enter the credit asset management business.

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