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Delhaize Group (Delhaize Group) PB Ratio : 1.71 (As of May. 05, 2024)


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What is Delhaize Group 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 (2024-05-05), Delhaize Group's share price is $28.11. Delhaize Group's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 was $16.43. Hence, Delhaize Group's PB Ratio of today is 1.71.

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

DEG's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Retail - Defensive industry.
Industry Median: 1.66
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Delhaize Group PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Delhaize Group'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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Delhaize Group PB Ratio Chart

Delhaize Group Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.81 0.61 0.88 1.11 1.50

Delhaize Group Quarterly Data
Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16
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 1.41 1.30 1.37 1.50 1.58

Competitive Comparison of Delhaize Group's PB Ratio

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, Delhaize Group'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.


Delhaize Group's PB Ratio Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Delhaize Group's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Delhaize Group's PB Ratio falls into.



Delhaize Group 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.

Delhaize Group's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Mar. 2016)
=28.11/16.429
=1.71

* 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.


Delhaize Group  (NYSE:DEG) 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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Delhaize Group (Delhaize Group) Business Description

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Delhaize Group SA was founded in Belgium in 1867. It operates food supermarkets. Its conducts its retail operations through its businesses in the United States; Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, collectively as Delhaize Belgium; Greece, Romania and Serbia, collectively as Southeastern Europe; and Indonesia. Its store network also includes other store formats such as proximity, cash and carry and specialty stores. Its competitors include international, national, regional and local supermarket chains, supercenters, independent grocery stores, specialty food stores, warehouse club stores, retail drug chains, convenience stores, membership clubs, general merchandisers, discount retailers and restaurants. Food retail chains generally compete on the basis of location, quality of products, service, price, product variety, store condition and e-commerce offer. The Company's brands include Delhaize, Taste of Inspirations, 365, Care, Delhaize Eco and Delhaize Bio.