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.
Fiat Industrial SpA Tangible Book per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Fiat Industrial SpA'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 Fiat Industrial SpA's Tangible Book per Share
For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery subindustry, Fiat Industrial SpA'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.
Fiat Industrial SpA's Price-to-Tangible-Book Distribution in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry
For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry and Industrials sector, Fiat Industrial SpA's Price-to-Tangible-Book distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Fiat Industrial SpA's Price-to-Tangible-Book falls into.
Fiat Industrial SpA Tangible Book per Share Calculation
Fiat Industrial SpA's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2012 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.
Fiat Industrial SpA (LTS:0OAQ) 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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Fiat Industrial SpA (LTS:0OAQ) Business Description
Fiat Industrial SpA operates in the capital goods sector. Each of the Group's businesses is a major international player in its respective industry sector: Iveco, CNH-Case New Holland and FPT Industrial. These three sectors design, produce and sell trucks, commercial vehicles, buses, special vehicles (Iveco), tractors, and agricultural and construction equipment (CNH), in addition to engines and transmissions for those vehicles and engines for marine applications (FPT Industrial). Agricultural equipment is sold under the New Holland Agriculture and Case IH and, in the premium segment in Europe, Steyr brands. Construction equipment is sold under the New Holland Construction and Case Construction brands, as well as the Kobelco brand in North America. Iveco designs, manufactures and sells a wide range of light (2.8-6 tons GVW), medium (6-16 tons GVW) and heavy (above 16 tons GVW) commercial vehicles for on-road and off-road use. In addition to its main product offer, the Company also offers after-sales and financing services, in addition to services related to used-vehicles. FPT Industrial is specialized in the design, production and sale of propulsion and transmission systems for on- and off-road trucks and commercial vehicles, as well as engines for marine application and power generation.
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