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Baker Hughes (XSWX:BHI) PB Ratio : 2.07 (As of May. 28, 2024)


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What is Baker Hughes 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 (2024-05-28), Baker Hughes's share price is CHF60.80. Baker Hughes's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2017 was CHF29.32. Hence, Baker Hughes's PB Ratio of today is 2.07.

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

XSWX:BHI's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 1.25
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

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Baker Hughes PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Baker Hughes'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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Baker Hughes PB Ratio Chart

Baker Hughes Annual Data
Trend Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16
PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.07 1.46 1.32 1.35 1.87

Baker Hughes Quarterly Data
Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17
PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.46 1.40 1.45 1.87 1.94

Competitive Comparison of Baker Hughes's PB Ratio

For the Oil & Gas Equipment & Services subindustry, Baker Hughes'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.


Baker Hughes's PB Ratio Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Baker Hughes's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Baker Hughes's PB Ratio falls into.



Baker Hughes 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.

Baker Hughes's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Mar. 2017)
=60.80/29.319
=2.07

* 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.


Baker Hughes  (XSWX:BHI) 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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Baker Hughes (XSWX:BHI) Business Description

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Baker Hughes is one of the world's largest integrated oil services providers. Its largest end market is North America, and thus its fortunes are strongly leveraged to U.S. shale activity. By the end of 2017, the firm is set to combine with General Electric's oil and gas division, which is more leveraged to offshore developments, as well as nonupstream energy markets such as liquefied natural gas and refining.

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