Avistar Communications (Avistar Communications) Tangible Book per Share : $-0.34 (As of Mar. 2012)

Avistar Communications Tangible Book per Share Chart

Avistar Communications Annual Data
	Trend	Dec02	Dec03	Dec04	Dec05	Dec06	Dec07	Dec08	Dec09	Dec10	Dec11
Tangible Book per Share		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-0.29	-0.42	-0.35	-0.20	-0.32

Avistar Communications Quarterly Data
	Jun07	Sep07	Dec07	Mar08	Jun08	Sep08	Dec08	Mar09	Jun09	Sep09	Dec09	Mar10	Jun10	Sep10	Dec10	Mar11	Jun11	Sep11	Dec11	Mar12
Tangible Book per Share	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-0.25	-0.30	-0.27	-0.32	-0.34

Competitive Comparison of Avistar Communications's Tangible Book per Share

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Avistar Communications's Price-to-Tangible-Book, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Tangible-Book 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.

Avistar Communications's Price-to-Tangible-Book Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Avistar Communications's Price-to-Tangible-Book distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Avistar Communications's Price-to-Tangible-Book falls into.

Avistar Communications Tangible Book per Share Calculation

Avistar Communications's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2011 is calculated as

Avistar Communications's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2012 is calculated as

* 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.

Theoretically it is what the shareholders will receive if the company is liquidated. Total equity is a balance sheet item and equal to total assets less total liabilities of the company. Since intangibles such as goodwill cannot be sold when the company liquidates, tangible book value per share is considered more accurate in reflecting how much shareholders will receive when the company liquidates.

Avistar Communications  (OTCPK:AVSR) Tangible Book per Share Explanation

Usually a company's book value and Tangible Book per Share may not reflect its true value. The assets may be carried on the balance sheets at the original cost minus depreciation. This may underestimate the true economic values of the assets. It also may over-estimate their true economic value because the assets can become obsolete.

For financial companies such as banks and insurance companies, their assets may be reported in current market value of the assets owned. Book values of financial companies are more accurate indicator of the economic value of the company.

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