VIA Pharmaceuticals (VIA Pharmaceuticals) Tangible Book per Share : $-0.90 (As of Dec. 2010)

VIA Pharmaceuticals Tangible Book per Share Chart

VIA Pharmaceuticals Annual Data
	Trend	Dec01	Dec02	Dec03	Dec04	Dec05	Dec06	Dec07	Dec08	Dec09	Dec10
Tangible Book per Share		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-4.47	1.04	0.08	-0.54	-0.90

VIA Pharmaceuticals Quarterly Data
	Mar06	Jun06	Sep06	Dec06	Mar07	Jun07	Sep07	Dec07	Mar08	Jun08	Sep08	Dec08	Mar09	Jun09	Sep09	Dec09	Mar10	Jun10	Sep10	Dec10
Tangible Book per Share	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-0.54	-0.65	-0.73	-0.81	-0.90

Competitive Comparison of VIA Pharmaceuticals's Tangible Book per Share

For the Biotechnology subindustry, VIA Pharmaceuticals'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.

VIA Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Tangible-Book Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, VIA Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Tangible-Book distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where VIA Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Tangible-Book falls into.

VIA Pharmaceuticals Tangible Book per Share Calculation

VIA Pharmaceuticals's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2010 is calculated as

VIA Pharmaceuticals's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2010 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.

VIA Pharmaceuticals  (GREY:VIAP) 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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