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 (2024-04-26), Fastly's share price is $12.95. Fastly's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $7.37. Hence, Fastly's PB Ratio of today is 1.76.
Good Sign:
Fastly Inc stock PB Ratio (=1.68) is close to 1-year low of 1.56
The historical rank and industry rank for Fastly's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FSLY'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.95 Med: 4.68 Max: 32.43
Current: 1.76
During the past 7 years, Fastly's highest PB Ratio was 32.43. The lowest was 0.95. And the median was 4.68.
FSLY's PB Ratio is ranked better than 69.51% of 2578
companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.62
vs FSLY: 1.76
During the past 12 months, Fastly's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -4.10% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -7.60% per year.
During the past 7 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Fastly was 41.40% per year. The lowest was -7.60% per year. And the median was 16.90% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Fastly PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Fastly'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.
For the Software - Application subindustry, Fastly'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.
Fastly's PB Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Fastly's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Fastly's PB Ratio falls into.
Fastly 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.
Fastly'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.
Fastly PB Ratio Related Terms
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Fastly operates a content delivery network, which is necessary for entities to provide faster and more reliable online content. Fastly's strategy differs from traditional CDNs, which focus on locating servers in as many locations as possible to store copies of files that consumers most use. Fastly is in far fewer sites than traditional CDNs, but it houses servers in the most network-dense data centers. Instead of simply storing static content, it allows its customers to program on its platform, enabling edge computing and better service of the more dynamic content that was traditionally not well served by CDNs. Fastly gears its service to the largest, most sophisticated enterprises rather than small companies and generated nearly three fourths of its revenue in the United States in 2022.
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