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 (2024-06-23), Compuware's share price is €7.98. Compuware's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was €3.75. Hence, Compuware's PB Ratio of today is 2.13.
The historical rank and industry rank for Compuware's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:CWR'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.16 Med: 1.98 Max: 3.23
Current: 2.14
During the past 13 years, Compuware's highest PB Ratio was 3.23. The lowest was 1.16. And the median was 1.98.
FRA:CWR's PB Ratio is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 2.615
vs FRA:CWR: 2.14
During the past 12 months, Compuware's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -1.80% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 4.70% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 5.00% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 3.30% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Compuware was 41.80% per year. The lowest was -4.70% per year. And the median was 5.50% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Compuware PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Compuware'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.
For the Software - Application subindustry, Compuware'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.
Compuware's PB Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Compuware's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Compuware's PB Ratio falls into.
Compuware 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.
Compuware'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.
Compuware PB Ratio Related Terms
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Compuware Corp a Michigan corporation was incorporated in 1973. The Company delivers services and software that enable its customers' important technologies to perform at their peak. It delivers the solutions through software that is installed and run on its customers' owned hardware and applications and through a Software as a Service ('SaaS') model accessed via its hosted networks. It has six business segments: Application Performance Managemen (APM), Mainframe, Changepoint, Uniface, Professional Services and Covisint Application Services ('Covisint'). Its Compuware Application Performance Management ('Compuware APM') consists of its solutions for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Its Mainframe Software Products improve the productivity of development, maintenance and support teams in application analysis, testing, defect detection and remediation, fault management, file and data management, data compliance and application performance management in the IBM z/OS environment. Its Changepoint software combines professional services automation with project portfolio management capabilities to give customers complete visibility into projects, investments and resources for informed business planning and financial control. Its Uniface solution is Compuware's Rapid Application Development environment for building, renewing and integrating some of the complex enterprise applications. Its Covisint application services provide a cloud engagement platform for enabling organizations to securely connect, engage and collaborate with large, distributed communities of customers, business partners and suppliers. Its products and services are used by the IT departments and lines of business of a of commercial and government organizations. Its competitors include BMC Software Inc., CA, Inc., International Business Machines ('IBM'), Hewlett-Packard Company, Keynote Systems, Inc., Accenture, Computer Sciences Corporation, HP Enterprise Services, Analysts International Corporation and Infosys Technologies.
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