Since intangibles such as goodwill cannot be sold when the company liquidates, tangible book value per share is considered more accurate in reflecting how much shareholders will receive when the company liquidates.
Steamships Trading Co Tangible Book per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Steamships Trading Co's Tangible Book per Share 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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Steamships Trading Co Tangible Book per Share Chart
Competitive Comparison of Steamships Trading Co's Tangible Book per Share
For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, Steamships Trading Co's Price-to-Tangible-Book, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Tangible-Book 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.
Steamships Trading Co's Price-to-Tangible-Book Distribution in the Transportation Industry
For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Steamships Trading Co's Price-to-Tangible-Book distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Steamships Trading Co's Price-to-Tangible-Book falls into.
* 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.
Theoretically it is what the shareholders will receive if the company is liquidated. Total equity is a balance sheet item and equal to total assets less total liabilities of the company. Since intangibles such as goodwill cannot be sold when the company liquidates, tangible book value per share is considered more accurate in reflecting how much shareholders will receive when the company liquidates.
Steamships Trading Co (ASX:SST) Tangible Book per Share Explanation
Usually a company's book value and Tangible Book per Share may not reflect its true value. The assets may be carried on the balance sheets at the original cost minus depreciation. This may underestimate the true economic values of the assets. It also may over-estimate their true economic value because the assets can become obsolete.
For financial companies such as banks and insurance companies, their assets may be reported in current market value of the assets owned. Book values of financial companies are more accurate indicator of the economic value of the company.
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Steamships Trading Co Ltd is a diversified holding company. The company's operating segment includes Property and hospitality, Logistics, and Commercial & investment. It generates maximum revenue from the Logistics segment, which consists of shipping and land-based freight transport and related services divisions. The Property and hospitality segment consists of the hotels owned and operated by the group and also its property leasing division and Commercial and investment - which consists of commercial, head office administration function and insurance activities The group operates in Papua New Guinea.
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