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Hopewell Holdings (Hopewell Holdings) PB Ratio : 0.62 (As of May. 11, 2024)


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What is Hopewell Holdings 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 (2024-05-11), Hopewell Holdings's share price is $4.799. Hopewell Holdings's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2018 was $7.72. Hence, Hopewell Holdings's PB Ratio of today is 0.62.

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

HOWWY's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Construction industry.
Industry Median: 1.25
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

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Hopewell Holdings PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Hopewell 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.

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Hopewell Holdings PB Ratio Chart

Hopewell Holdings Annual Data
Trend Jun09 Jun10 Jun11 Jun12 Jun13 Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18
PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.54 0.54 0.46 0.55 0.45

Hopewell Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Jun08 Jun09 Dec09 Jun10 Dec10 Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18
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 0.46 0.50 0.55 0.51 0.45

Competitive Comparison of Hopewell Holdings's PB Ratio

For the Infrastructure Operations subindustry, Hopewell 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.


Hopewell Holdings's PB Ratio Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Hopewell Holdings's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Hopewell Holdings's PB Ratio falls into.



Hopewell 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.

Hopewell Holdings's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Jun. 2018)
=4.799/7.719
=0.62

* 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.


Hopewell Holdings  (OTCPK:HOWWY) 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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Hopewell Holdings (Hopewell Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
183 Queen’s Road East, 64th Floor, Hopewell Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, HKG
Hopewell Holdings Ltd is an investment and infrastructure company domiciled in Hong Kong. The company operates through seven segments: property investment; hotel, restaurant, and catering operation; property development; toll road investment; power plant; treasury income; and other operations. Toll road investment, the most significant contributor to revenue, invests in toll road projects. Property investment and property development are the next most significant segments, and let, manage, develop, and sell property investments. Power plant, which contributes a similar amount of revenue as property investment and property development, operates power plant assets. The company derives the majority of income domestically, and also operates in the People's Republic of China.

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