A low price relative to book value used to signal a bargain. Nowadays it provides only a hint of value. Divide a company’s market capitalization by its shareholders’ equity and you get the price to ...

Price-to-book ratio is a convenient tool for identifying low-priced stocks with high-growth prospects. Book value is what shareholders may receive if a company liquidates assets after paying off all ...

A company's book value is equal to its total assets, less its liabilities. Book value does not consider the future at all. It is strictly a measure of the company's balance sheet values at any given ...