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Onward Opportunities (LSE:ONWD) PB Ratio : 1.27 (As of May. 26, 2024)


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What is Onward Opportunities 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 (2024-05-26), Onward Opportunities's share price is £1.22. Onward Opportunities's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was £0.96. Hence, Onward Opportunities's PB Ratio of today is 1.27.

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

LSE:ONWD's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Asset Management industry.
Industry Median: 0.95
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Onward Opportunities PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Onward Opportunities'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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Onward Opportunities PB Ratio Chart

Onward Opportunities Annual Data
Trend Dec23
PB Ratio
-

Onward Opportunities Semi-Annual Data
Jun23
PB Ratio 1.10

Competitive Comparison of Onward Opportunities's PB Ratio

For the Asset Management subindustry, Onward Opportunities'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.


Onward Opportunities's PB Ratio Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Onward Opportunities's PB Ratio falls into.



Onward Opportunities 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.

Onward Opportunities's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Jun. 2023)
=1.22/0.964
=1.27

* 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.


Onward Opportunities  (LSE:ONWD) 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.


Onward Opportunities PB Ratio Related Terms

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Onward Opportunities (LSE:ONWD) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Royal Avenue, 1 Royal Plaza, Saint Peter Port, GGY, GY1 2HL
Onward Opportunities Ltd operates as a non-cellular (closed-ended) company limited by shares. The company's investment objective is to seek to generate risk-adjusted absolute returns for Shareholders through investments in UK smaller companies. Returns are expected to be principally derived from capital growth over a target three to five-year holding period with an appropriate diversification of investment risk.

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