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PXP Vietnam Fund (LSE:VNF) PB Ratio : 0.87 (As of May. 13, 2024)


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What is PXP Vietnam Fund 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 (2024-05-13), PXP Vietnam Fund's share price is $6.43. PXP Vietnam Fund's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was $7.36. Hence, PXP Vietnam Fund's PB Ratio of today is 0.87.

The historical rank and industry rank for PXP Vietnam Fund's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:VNF'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


PXP Vietnam Fund PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for PXP Vietnam Fund'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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PXP Vietnam Fund PB Ratio Chart

PXP Vietnam Fund Annual Data
Trend Sep09 Sep10 Sep11 Sep12 Sep13 Sep14
PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.89 0.89 0.84 0.83 0.93

PXP Vietnam Fund Semi-Annual Data
Sep10 Mar11 Sep11 Sep12 Mar13 Sep13 Mar14 Sep14
PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.84 0.83 0.83 0.94 0.93

Competitive Comparison of PXP Vietnam Fund's PB Ratio

For the Asset Management subindustry, PXP Vietnam Fund'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.


PXP Vietnam Fund's PB Ratio Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where PXP Vietnam Fund's PB Ratio falls into.



PXP Vietnam Fund 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.

PXP Vietnam Fund's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Sep. 2014)
=6.43/7.361
=0.87

* 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.


PXP Vietnam Fund  (LSE:VNF) 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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PXP Vietnam Fund (LSE:VNF) Business Description

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PXP Vietnam Fund Ltd is a closed-end investment company. Its investment objective is to seek long-term capital appreciation of its assets by investing in a portfolio of the equity securities of Vietnamese companies, whether established with domestic or foreign ownership, which are either listed companies or prelisting companies.

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