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Amazon.com (BUE:AMZN) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio : 27.14 (As of Apr. 29, 2024)


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What is Amazon.com Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio?

As of today (2024-04-29), Amazon.com's current share price is ARS1356.50. Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was ARS49.99. Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is 27.14.

The historical rank and industry rank for Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

BUE:AMZN' s Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 15.4   Med: 46.18   Max: 76.24
Current: 24.38

During the past years, Amazon.com's highest Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio was 76.24. The lowest was 15.40. And the median was 46.18.

BUE:AMZN's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio is ranked worse than
98.05% of 719 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 1.16 vs BUE:AMZN: 24.38

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio. The Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted book value per share of a company over the past 10 years.

Amazon.com's adjusted book value per share data for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was ARS97.484. Add all the adjusted book value per share for the past 10 years together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share, which is ARS49.99 for the trailing ten years ended in Dec. 2023.

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Amazon.com Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted 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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Amazon.com Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Chart

Amazon.com Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 45.12 58.53 40.90 15.03 20.63

Amazon.com Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 15.03 17.13 20.14 18.32 20.63

Competitive Comparison of Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio

For the Internet Retail subindustry, Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted 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.


Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio falls into.



Amazon.com Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio takes the Book Value per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/B calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPB Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio.

Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share
=1356.50/49.99
=27.14

* 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.

Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as:

For example, Amazon.com's adjusted Book Value per Share data for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was:

Adj_Book=Book Value per Share/CPI of Dec. 2023 (Change)*Current CPI (Dec. 2023)
=97.484/129.4194*129.4194
=97.484

Current CPI (Dec. 2023) = 129.4194.

Amazon.com Quarterly Data

Book Value per Share CPI Adj_Book
201403 0.124 99.695 0.161
201406 0.129 100.560 0.166
201409 0.131 100.428 0.169
201412 0.137 99.070 0.179
201503 0.143 99.621 0.186
201506 0.159 100.684 0.204
201509 0.173 100.392 0.223
201512 0.255 99.792 0.331
201603 0.317 100.470 0.408
201606 0.339 101.688 0.431
201609 0.388 101.861 0.493
201612 0.445 101.863 0.565
201703 0.485 102.862 0.610
201706 0.554 103.349 0.694
201709 0.623 104.136 0.774
201712 0.759 104.011 0.944
201803 0.908 105.290 1.116
201806 1.245 106.317 1.516
201809 2.045 106.507 2.485
201812 2.322 105.998 2.835
201903 2.671 107.251 3.223
201906 3.333 108.070 3.991
201909 4.434 108.329 5.297
201912 5.173 108.420 6.175
202003 5.638 108.902 6.700
202006 6.996 108.767 8.324
202009 8.501 109.815 10.019
202012 10.494 109.897 12.358
202103 12.834 111.754 14.863
202106 14.925 114.631 16.850
202109 16.147 115.734 18.056
202112 19.048 117.630 20.957
202203 19.630 121.301 20.944
202206 21.566 125.017 22.325
202209 26.018 125.227 26.889
202212 33.202 125.222 34.315
202303 41.332 127.348 42.004
202306 54.495 128.729 54.787
202309 86.091 129.860 85.799
202312 97.484 129.419 97.484

Add all the adjusted book value per share together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


Amazon.com  (BUE:AMZN) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PB Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of book value during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio should give similar results to regular PB Ratio.


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Amazon.com (BUE:AMZN) Business Description

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410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA, USA, 98109-5210
Amazon is a leading online retailer and one of the highest-grossing e-commerce aggregators, with $386 billion in net sales and approximately $578 billion in estimated physical/digital online gross merchandise volume in 2021. Retail-related revenue represents approximately 80% of the total, followed by Amazon Web Services' cloud computing, storage, database, and other offerings (10%-15%), advertising services (5%), and other. International segments constitute 25%-30% of Amazon's non-AWS sales, led by Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.