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Sinai Cement (CAI:SCEM) PB Ratio : 0.78 (As of May. 27, 2024)


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What is Sinai Cement 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 (2024-05-27), Sinai Cement's share price is E£11.00. Sinai Cement's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2017 was E£14.06. Hence, Sinai Cement's PB Ratio of today is 0.78.

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

CAI:SCEM's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Building Materials industry.
Industry Median: 1.215
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Sinai Cement PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sinai Cement'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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Sinai Cement PB Ratio Chart

Sinai Cement Annual Data
Trend
PB Ratio

Sinai Cement Semi-Annual Data
Jun16 Jun17
PB Ratio - 1.16

Competitive Comparison of Sinai Cement's PB Ratio

For the Building Materials subindustry, Sinai Cement'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.


Sinai Cement's PB Ratio Distribution in the Building Materials Industry

For the Building Materials industry and Basic Materials sector, Sinai Cement's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sinai Cement's PB Ratio falls into.



Sinai Cement 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.

Sinai Cement's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Jun. 2017)
=11.00/14.064
=0.78

* 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.


Sinai Cement  (CAI:SCEM) 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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Sinai Cement (CAI:SCEM) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Ring Road, Sama Administrative Tower, Katameya, Cairo, EGY, 11439
Sinai Cement is engaged in the production of cement and related products along with packaging of bags.

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