Virgin Media (LSE:VMED) PB Ratio : 2.62 (As of May. 11, 2024)

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What is Virgin Media 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 (2024-05-11), Virgin Media's share price is £32.60. Virgin Media's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2013 was £12.42. Hence, Virgin Media's PB Ratio of today is 2.62.

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

LSE:VMED's PB Ratio is not ranked ^*
in the Media - Diversified industry.
Industry Median: 1.475
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Virgin Media PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Virgin Media'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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Virgin Media PB Ratio Chart

Virgin Media Annual Data

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2.44

4.54

6.69

2.34

Virgin Media Quarterly Data
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PB Ratio	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															9.14	10.66	11.95	2.30	2.59

Competitive Comparison of Virgin Media's PB Ratio

For the Broadcasting subindustry, Virgin Media'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.

Virgin Media's PB Ratio Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Virgin Media's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Virgin Media's PB Ratio falls into.

Virgin Media 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.

Virgin Media's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio	=	Share Price	/	Book Value per Share (Q: Mar. 2013)
	=	32.60	/	12.423
	=	2.62

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

PB Ratio

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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.

Virgin Media (LSE:VMED) 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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Virgin Media Inc is engaged in the entertainment and communications business, being a quad-play provider of broadband internet, television, mobile telephony and fixed line telephony services that offer a variety of entertainment and communications services to residential and commercial customers throughout the U.K. The group is a provider of residential broadband internet, pay television and fixed line telephony services by number of customers. In addition, it provides a complete portfolio of voice, data and internet solutions to businesses, public sector organizations and service providers in the U.K. through Virgin Media Business. Its two reporting segments are Consumer and Business. Consumer segment includes the distribution of television programming over the cable network and the provision of broadband and fixed line telephone services to residential consumers, both on and off the cable network. The Consumer segment faces competition from BT, British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC, or BSkyB, TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC, or TalkTalk, Vodafone, EE and O2. Business segment includes the voice and data telecommunication and internet solutions services that provide through its cable network and third party networks to businesses, public sector organizations and service providers. The Business segment is managed through Virgin Media Business offers a broad portfolio of voice, data and internet solutions to commercial and public sector organizations in the U.K., ranging from analog telephony to managed data networks and applications. Virgin Media Business competes primarily with traditional network operators such as BT and C&W. It also competes with regional providers, such as COLTTelecom Group PLC.

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