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 (2025-03-24), Electro-Sensors's share price is $4.23. Electro-Sensors's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was $4.18. Hence, Electro-Sensors's PB Ratio of today is 1.01.
The historical rank and industry rank for Electro-Sensors's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
ELSE'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.7 Med: 1.05 Max: 1.7
Current: 1.01
During the past 13 years, Electro-Sensors's highest PB Ratio was 1.70. The lowest was 0.70. And the median was 1.05.
ELSE's PB Ratio is ranked better than 72.02% of 2366
companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 1.965
vs ELSE: 1.01
During the past 12 months, Electro-Sensors's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 4.20% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 2.50% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 2.00% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 1.70% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Electro-Sensors was 27.30% per year. The lowest was -16.10% per year. And the median was 2.50% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Electro-Sensors PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Electro-Sensors'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.
Competitive Comparison of Electro-Sensors's PB Ratio
For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Electro-Sensors'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.
Electro-Sensors's PB Ratio Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Electro-Sensors's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Electro-Sensors's PB Ratio falls into.
Electro-Sensors 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.
Electro-Sensors's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:
* 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.
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.
Electro-Sensors PB Ratio Related Terms
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Electro-Sensors Inc is engaged in manufacturing and selling a variety of monitoring systems that measure actual machine production and operation rates, as well as systems that regulate the speed of related machines in production processes. Its speed monitoring systems compare revolutions per minute or speed against acceptable rates as determined by a customer. It also includes a line of products that measure production counts or rates, such as parts, gallons, or board feet, alarm systems, tachometers, and other devices that translate impulses from the sensors into alarm signals, computer inputs, or digital displays that are usable by the customer.
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