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Life Settlement Assets (LSE:LSAA) PB Ratio : 0.77 (As of Apr. 18, 2025)


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What is Life Settlement Assets 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 (2025-04-18), Life Settlement Assets's share price is $1.75. Life Settlement Assets's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was $2.26. Hence, Life Settlement Assets's PB Ratio of today is 0.77.

The historical rank and industry rank for Life Settlement Assets's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:LSAA' s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.6   Med: 0.78   Max: 1.11
Current: 0.77

During the past 6 years, Life Settlement Assets's highest PB Ratio was 1.11. The lowest was 0.60. And the median was 0.78.

LSE:LSAA's PB Ratio is ranked better than
70.68% of 1644 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.87 vs LSE:LSAA: 0.77

During the past 12 months, Life Settlement Assets's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 4.40% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 9.10% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 4.30% per year.

During the past 6 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Life Settlement Assets was 9.10% per year. The lowest was 1.50% per year. And the median was 6.90% per year.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Life Settlement Assets PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Life Settlement Assets'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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Life Settlement Assets PB Ratio Chart

Life Settlement Assets Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.84 1.11 0.65 0.65 0.74

Life Settlement Assets Semi-Annual Data
Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23 Jun24
PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.63 0.65 0.72 0.74 0.79

Competitive Comparison of Life Settlement Assets's PB Ratio

For the Asset Management subindustry, Life Settlement Assets'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.


Life Settlement Assets's PB Ratio Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Life Settlement Assets's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Life Settlement Assets's PB Ratio falls into.


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Life Settlement Assets 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.

Life Settlement Assets's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Jun. 2024)
=1.75/2.259
=0.77

* 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.


Life Settlement Assets  (LSE:LSAA) 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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Life Settlement Assets Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
115 Park Street, 4th Floor, London, GBR, W1K 7AP
Life Settlement Assets PLC is a closed-ended investment company. The company's principal activities are to support and manage portfolios of whole and partial interests in life settlement policies issued by life insurance companies operating predominantly in the United States. Its investment objective is to generate long-term returns for shareholders by investing in the life settlement market. The Company's entire income is generated on the life settlement portfolios in the USA.

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