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Viking Therapeutics (FRA:1VT) PB Ratio : 6.34 (As of Dec. 12, 2024)


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What is Viking Therapeutics 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 (2024-12-12), Viking Therapeutics's share price is €46.73. Viking Therapeutics's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was €7.37. Hence, Viking Therapeutics's PB Ratio of today is 6.34.

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

FRA:1VT' s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0   Max: 27.16
Current: 5.96

During the past 12 years, Viking Therapeutics's highest PB Ratio was 27.16. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.

FRA:1VT's PB Ratio is ranked worse than
79.44% of 1279 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: 2.52 vs FRA:1VT: 5.96

During the past 12 months, Viking Therapeutics's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 122.20% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 1.40% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -9.00% per year.

During the past 12 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Viking Therapeutics was 114.80% per year. The lowest was -21.40% per year. And the median was 33.90% per year.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Viking Therapeutics PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Viking Therapeutics'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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Viking Therapeutics PB Ratio Chart

Viking Therapeutics Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.12 1.71 1.78 4.88 5.43

Viking Therapeutics Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
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 3.02 5.43 9.95 6.59 7.86

Competitive Comparison of Viking Therapeutics's PB Ratio

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Viking Therapeutics'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.


Viking Therapeutics's PB Ratio Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Viking Therapeutics's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Viking Therapeutics's PB Ratio falls into.



Viking Therapeutics 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.

Viking Therapeutics's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Sep. 2024)
=46.73/7.369
=6.34

* 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.


Viking Therapeutics  (FRA:1VT) 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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Viking Therapeutics Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
9920 Pacific Heights Boulevard, Suite 350, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121
Viking Therapeutics Inc is a healthcare service provider. The company specializes in the area of biopharmaceutical development focused on metabolic and endocrine disorders. The company's clinical program pipeline consists of VK2809, VK5211, VK0214 products. VK2809 and VK0214 are orally available, tissue and receptor-subtype selective agonists of the thyroid hormone receptor beta. VK5211 is an orally available, non-steroidal selective androgen receptor modulator.

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