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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding (XSWX:ADBN) PB Ratio : 1.60 (As of May. 24, 2024)


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What is Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding 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 (2024-05-24), Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's share price is CHF15.20. Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 was CHF9.49. Hence, Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's PB Ratio of today is 1.60.

The historical rank and industry rank for Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

XSWX:ADBN's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 1.87
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding'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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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding PB Ratio Chart

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.61 2.37 0.90 1.22 1.73

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Semi-Annual Data
Dec09 Jun10 Dec10 Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13 Jun14
PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.14 1.22 1.34 1.73 1.46

Competitive Comparison of Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's PB Ratio

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding'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.


Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's PB Ratio Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's PB Ratio falls into.



Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding 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.

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Jun. 2014)
=15.20/9.486
=1.60

* 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.


Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding  (XSWX:ADBN) 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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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding (XSWX:ADBN) Business Description

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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding SA was incorporated on July 26, 2004 in the Canton of Geneva. The Company is engaged in the development and sale of equipment, services and software for the digital television and broadband data communication industry, and relies on third party contract manufacturers for the production of equipment. In 2005, the Company made an initial public offering. It develops and delivers diverse products to the worldwide digital television industry, supplying digital set-top boxes across all television transmission platforms such as cable, IPTV, satellite and terrestrial. Its customers include digital television operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and retail distributors of digital set-top boxes. The Company is in system integration, incorporating the industry's middleware, conditional access and hardware technologies and provide technically superior products, service and support, in as short time as possible.

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