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 (2023-03-28), Cisco Systems's share price is $50.39. Cisco Systems's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2023 was $10.13. Hence, Cisco Systems's PB Ratio of today is 4.98.
The historical rank and industry rank for Cisco Systems's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
CSCO'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.62 Med: 2.65 Max: 7.34
Current: 4.97
During the past 13 years, Cisco Systems's highest PB Ratio was 7.34. The lowest was 1.62. And the median was 2.65.
CSCO's PB Ratio is ranked worse than 87.74% of 2350
companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 1.79
vs CSCO: 4.97
During the past 12 months, Cisco Systems's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 6.40% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 7.00% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -3.70% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -2.00% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Cisco Systems was 284.90% per year. The lowest was -14.50% per year. And the median was 13.70% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Cisco Systems PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Cisco Systems'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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Cisco Systems Annual Data
Trend
Jul13
Jul14
Jul15
Jul16
Jul17
Jul18
Jul19
Jul20
Jul21
Jul22
PB Ratio
4.52
7.01
5.26
5.66
4.69
Cisco Systems Quarterly Data
Apr18
Jul18
Oct18
Jan19
Apr19
Jul19
Oct19
Jan20
Apr20
Jul20
Oct20
Jan21
Apr21
Jul21
Oct21
Jan22
Apr22
Jul22
Oct22
Jan23
PB Ratio
5.85
5.03
4.69
4.63
4.81
Competitive Comparison
For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Cisco Systems'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.
Cisco Systems PB Ratio Distribution
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Cisco Systems's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Cisco Systems's PB Ratio falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the PB Ratio's extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.
Cisco Systems 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.
Cisco Systems's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:
* 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.
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.
Cisco Systems PB Ratio Related Terms
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Cisco Systems is the largest provider of networking equipment in the world and one of the largest software companies in the world. Its largest businesses are selling networking hardware and software (where it has leading market shares) and cybersecurity software like firewalls. It also has collaboration products, like its Webex suite, and observability tools. It primarily outsources its manufacturing to third parties and has a large sales and marketing staff—25,000 strong across 90 countries. Overall, Cisco employees 80,000 employees and sells its products globally.
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