Peoples Educational Holdings (Peoples Educational Holdings) Tangible Book per Share : $-0.86 (As of May. 2012)

Peoples Educational Holdings Tangible Book per Share Chart

Peoples Educational Holdings Annual Data
	Trend	Dec02	Dec03	Dec04	Dec05	May07	May08	May09	May10	May11	May12
Tangible Book per Share		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					1.43	1.19	1.26	1.16	-0.86

Peoples Educational Holdings Quarterly Data
	Aug07	Nov07	Feb08	May08	Aug08	Nov08	Feb09	May09	Aug09	Nov09	Feb10	May10	Aug10	Nov10	Feb11	May11	Aug11	Nov11	Feb12	May12
Tangible Book per Share	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															1.16	1.37	1.18	0.89	-0.86

Competitive Comparison of Peoples Educational Holdings's Tangible Book per Share

For the Publishing subindustry, Peoples Educational Holdings'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.

Peoples Educational Holdings's Price-to-Tangible-Book Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Peoples Educational Holdings's Price-to-Tangible-Book distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Peoples Educational Holdings's Price-to-Tangible-Book falls into.

Peoples Educational Holdings Tangible Book per Share Calculation

Peoples Educational Holdings's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in May. 2012 is calculated as

Peoples Educational Holdings's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the quarter that ended in May. 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.

Peoples Educational Holdings  (OTCPK:PEDH) 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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