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.
FirstMerit Tangible Book per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for FirstMerit'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 FirstMerit's Tangible Book per Share
For the Banks - Regional subindustry, FirstMerit'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.
FirstMerit's Price-to-Tangible-Book Distribution in the Banks Industry
For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, FirstMerit's Price-to-Tangible-Book distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where FirstMerit's Price-to-Tangible-Book falls into.
FirstMerit Tangible Book per Share Calculation
FirstMerit's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 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.
FirstMerit (NAS:FMER) 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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Firstmerit Corp was organized in 1981 under the laws of the State of Ohio, It is a bank holding company. It operates through the Bank and its other subsidiaries, providing banking, fiduciary, financial, insurance and investment services to corporate, institutional and individual customers throughout Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Western Pennsylvania. The Company manages its operations through the following primary lines of business: Commercial, Retail, Wealth and Other. Banking services are provided by the Company's national banking subsidiary, FirstMerit Bank. The Bank's trust department offers wealth management and trust services. The majority of its customers are comprised of consumers and small and medium sized businesses. The Bank has a small international department to service clients in its markets. The Company competes with other local, regional and national providers of financial services such as other bank holding companies, commercial banks, savings associations, credit unions, consumer and commercial finance companies, equipment leasing companies, mortgage banking companies, investment brokers and other brokerage institutions, money market and mutual funds and insurance companies. The Company is subject to extensive regulation, examination and supervision under by federal and state law.
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