The historical rank and industry rank for Rockwood Holdings's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:R6H'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.28 Med: 1.99 Max: 3.77
Current: 2.26
During the past 12 years, Rockwood Holdings's highest PB Ratio was 3.77. The lowest was 0.28. And the median was 1.99.
FRA:R6H's PB Ratio is not ranked
in the Chemicals industry.
Industry Median: 1.6
vs FRA:R6H: 2.26
During the past 12 months, Rockwood Holdings's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 9.10% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 41.40% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 33.10% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 6.40% per year.
During the past 12 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Rockwood Holdings was 41.40% per year. The lowest was 0.00% per year. And the median was 10.40% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Rockwood Holdings PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Rockwood Holdings'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.
Competitive Comparison of Rockwood Holdings's PB Ratio
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Rockwood Holdings'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.
Rockwood Holdings's PB Ratio Distribution in the Chemicals Industry
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Rockwood Holdings's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Rockwood Holdings's PB Ratio falls into.
Rockwood Holdings 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.
* 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.
Rockwood Holdings PB Ratio Related Terms
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Rockwood Holdings Inc was incorporated in Delaware in September 2000. It is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of value-added specialty chemicals and materials used for industrial and commercial purposes. The Company operates through two business segments: Lithium and Surface Treatment. The Lithium segment operates under the Rockwood Lithium brand name and develops lithium chemicals for industries and end markets. It develops and manufactures basic lithium compounds, including lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, lithium chloride, and value-added lithium specialties and reagents, including butyllithium and lithium aluminum hydride. It operates lithium business along the following five business divisions reflecting its core end-markets: Lithium Salts; Special Salts; Butyllithium/Lithium Metal; Battery Products and Lithium Specialties. Lithium segment obtains lithium brine which it uses to produce lithium products through evaporation in the Salar de Atacama, Chile and Silver Peak, Nevada. Lithium's customers include Bayer CropScience (a division of Bayer AG), Syngenta AG, Umicore S.A., Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. and Royal DSM N.V. Surface Treatment segment operates under the Chemetall brand name and develops and manufactures metal surface treatment products and services for industries and end market. Surface Treatment's products are used for a variety of applications and serve the automotive, aerospace and general industrial markets, including steel and metal-working industries. The customers include ArcelorMittal, Daimler AG, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) N.V., Ford, Renault-Nissan and Volkswagen AG. The competitors in this segment includes: Dow Corning Corporation, Catalise Industria e Comercio de Metals Ltda and Nachmann S.r.I. The Company's operations are subject to regulation by the FDA with respect to certain products produced, marketed and sold by its Lithium segment, which includes pharmaceutical intermediates.
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