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SoundBite Communications, (FRA:4S9) PB Ratio : 2.68 (As of Jun. 24, 2024)


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What is SoundBite Communications, 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 (2024-06-24), SoundBite Communications,'s share price is €3.79. SoundBite Communications,'s Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2013 was €1.42. Hence, SoundBite Communications,'s PB Ratio of today is 2.68.

The historical rank and industry rank for SoundBite Communications,'s PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:4S9's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Business Services industry.
Industry Median: 1.75
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


SoundBite Communications, PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for SoundBite Communications,'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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SoundBite Communications, PB Ratio Chart

SoundBite Communications, Annual Data
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PB Ratio
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SoundBite Communications, Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of SoundBite Communications,'s PB Ratio

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, SoundBite Communications,'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.


SoundBite Communications,'s PB Ratio Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, SoundBite Communications,'s PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where SoundBite Communications,'s PB Ratio falls into.



SoundBite Communications, 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.

SoundBite Communications,'s PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Mar. 2013)
=3.79/1.416
=2.68

* 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.


SoundBite Communications,  (FRA:4S9) 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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SoundBite Communications, (FRA:4S9) Business Description

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SoundBite Communications, Inc. was founded in Delaware in April 2000. The Company provides an on-demand, multi-channel proactive customer communications service that enables organizations to design, execute and measure communication campaigns for a variety of marketing, customer care, payment and collection processes. Clients use its SoundBite Engage platform to communicate with their customers through voice, text and email messages that are relevant, timely, personalized and engaging. Its service is provided using a multi-tenant architecture, which enables a single customer communications platform to serve all of its clients cost-effectively. Clients use the SoundBite Engage platform to create and manage campaigns for a variety of marketing, customer care, payments and collections processes. A campaign is a series of communications with a targeted group of customers, typically for a defined period of time. The targeted group is identified by a contact list containing customer-specific attributes, including first and last names, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and other information specific to the campaign. The Company's service is provided using a multi-tenant architecture, which enables a single PCC platform to serve all of its clients cost-effectively. To use its service, an organization does not need to invest in or maintain new hardware or to hire and manage dedicated information technology staff. The Company's Client Management organization helps clients select service features and adopt best practices that would enable the clients to use its multi-channel PCC platform effectively. The organization provides varying levels of support, such as managing entire campaigns, providing optimization recommendations and supporting self-service clients. It offers a range of services that includes script development, campaign strategy, professional voice talent recording, custom reporting and detailed analysis of campaign results. The Company serves its clients from three third-party hosting facilities, which are located in Ashburn, Virginia; Somerville, Massachusetts; and Toronto, Ontario. The Company's business operations are affected, directly or indirectly, by a range of U.S. federal and state laws and regulations that restrict customer communications activities using its service, its handling of information and other aspects of its business.

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