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Alliance Fiber Optic Products (Alliance Fiber Optic Products) PB Ratio : 4.62 (As of May. 07, 2024)


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What is Alliance Fiber Optic Products 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 (2024-05-07), Alliance Fiber Optic Products's share price is $18.51. Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 was $4.01. Hence, Alliance Fiber Optic Products's PB Ratio of today is 4.62.

The historical rank and industry rank for Alliance Fiber Optic Products's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

AFOP's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 1.89
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Alliance Fiber Optic Products PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Alliance Fiber Optic Products'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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Alliance Fiber Optic Products PB Ratio Chart

Alliance Fiber Optic Products Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.07 1.73 3.41 3.02 3.81

Alliance Fiber Optic Products Quarterly Data
Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16
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 3.54 3.57 3.44 3.81 3.69

Competitive Comparison of Alliance Fiber Optic Products's PB Ratio

For the Electronic Components subindustry, Alliance Fiber Optic Products'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.


Alliance Fiber Optic Products's PB Ratio Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Alliance Fiber Optic Products's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Alliance Fiber Optic Products's PB Ratio falls into.



Alliance Fiber Optic Products 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.

Alliance Fiber Optic Products's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Mar. 2016)
=18.51/4.009
=4.62

* 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.


Alliance Fiber Optic Products  (NAS:AFOP) 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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Alliance Fiber Optic Products (Alliance Fiber Optic Products) Business Description

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Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc was incorporated in California on December 12, 1995. The Company designs, manufactures and markets fiber optic components and integrated modules incorporating these components, for communications equipment manufacturers and service providers. The Company products including interconnect devices that are used to connect optical fibers and components, couplers and splitters that are used to divide and combine optical power, and dense wavelength division multiplexing, or DWDM, devices that separate and combine multiple specific wavelengths. Its lines of optical products support the needs of current and next generation optical network systems applications. Its connectivity product family provides a comprehensive line of optical interconnect devices, couplers and splitters, PLC (planar lightwave circuits) and related optical products, as well as customized integrated modules incorporating these devices. Its optical passive products include WDM, CWDM and DWDM components and modules that utilize thin film filter technologies to separate optical signals, variable attenuators, optical switches and other optical devices utilizing micro optic lensing technology including integrated electro-optical modules incorporating these products. It sells its products to communications equipment manufacturers in the United States and also maintain a sales support staff in Taiwan to service customers based in the Asia Pacific region. The Companys main competitors in the components market include JDS Uniphase Corp., Oclaro Inc., Oplink Communications, Inc., Senko Advanced Components and TE Connectivity.
Executives
Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd. 10 percent owner NO. 2 ZIYOU ST. TUCHENG DISTRICT, NEW TAIPEI F4 23678
Richard B Black director