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.
Vita Life Sciences Tangible Book per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Vita Life Sciences's Tangible Book per Share 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.
Competitive Comparison of Vita Life Sciences's Tangible Book per Share
For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, Vita Life Sciences'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.
Vita Life Sciences's Price-to-Tangible-Book Distribution in the Drug Manufacturers Industry
For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, Vita Life Sciences's Price-to-Tangible-Book distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Vita Life Sciences's Price-to-Tangible-Book falls into.
* 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.
Vita Life Sciences (ASX:VLS) 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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Vita Life Sciences Ltd is an Australian based pharmaceutical and healthcare company involved in formulating, packaging, sales, and distribution of vitamins and supplements. The company produces a wide range of premium supplements, vitamins, minerals, herbs and superfoods catered to all age categories and health conditions. The company markets its products through pharmacies and health food stores under the VitaHealth, Herbs of Gold brands throughout Asia-Pacific region. The company has four reportable segments which include The Australia segment comprises of sale of Herbs of Gold range in Australia and exports into China. The Singapore and Malaysia segment, comprise of Vitahealth and Herbs of Gold range in both countries The other market segment comprises of Vitahealth ranges.
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