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.
eLong Tangible Book per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for eLong'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.
Competitive Comparison of eLong's Tangible Book per Share
For the Leisure subindustry, eLong'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.
eLong's Price-to-Tangible-Book Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry
For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, eLong's Price-to-Tangible-Book distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where eLong's Price-to-Tangible-Book falls into.
eLong Tangible Book per Share Calculation
eLong's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
* 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.
eLong (NAS:LONG) 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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eLong Inc was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on April 4, 2001. The Company is in the business of mobile and online hotel reservations in China, offering consumers a hotel network of domestic and international properties. It enable travelers to make informed hotel and air ticket booking decisions through its website and mobile applications and easy to use tools such as destination guides, photos, virtual tours, maps and user reviews. Its largest shareholders are Expedia and Tencent. Its revenues are mainly derived from hotel reservations, and to a lesser extent from air ticketing. The Company offers 24-hour hotel booking, and various options with a variety of booking models, price points and payment choices for its customers, including budget, three-, four- and five-star hotels, short-stay apartments, and groupbuy hotels. The Company acts mainly as an agent in its hotel transactions. It makes room reservations based on customer inquiries and, upon the completion of a customer's stay, it calculate its commissions, which are generally a percentage of the nightly hotel room rate or a fixed amount per room night, which the hotels pay to it on a monthly basis. It also confirms with the hotel the length of the customer's stay. It also provides 24-hour air ticketing services through its toll-free customer service center, mobile applications and websites. It acts as an agent for all main airlines in China as well as international airlines that operate flights originating in China. It makes flight reservations through TravelSky GDS, which is the operator of the nationwide system for air ticket reservations in China, and issue air tickets using its branch offices and local agents. The Company markets its services through a combination of online marketing, media advertising, co-marketing with established brands of other companies and direct marketing. It competes with other online travel agencies such as Ctrip, as well as groupbuy companies which provide online hotel booking such as Meituan and travel search companies which provide online hotel booking such as Qunar. The air ticketing business is subject to the supervision of the CAAC and its regional branches. The travel agency industry is subject to the supervision of the CNTA and local tourism administrations.
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