Price-to-Book

A ratio of the share price of a publicly-traded company to its book value per share, which is the company's total asset value less the value of its liabilities. The P/B is a ratio of investor sentiment on the value of a stock to its actual value according to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. A high P/B means either that investors have overvalued the company, or that its accountants have undervalued it.

Price-to-book ratio.

Some financial analysts use price-to-book ratios to identify stocks they consider to be overvalued or undervalued.

You figure this ratio by dividing a stock's market price per share by its book value per share.

Other analysts argue that book value reveals very little about a company's financial situation or its prospects for future performance.

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A company's willingness to pay regular cash dividends at an increasing rate sends a powerful clue about its future growth, which helps drive price-to-book ratio to increase.

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However, there has been an obvious post-revolution discount to all the recent acquisitions, with QNB/NSGB at a price-to-book ratio (P/B) of 1.9x, ENBD/Paribas at 1.6x, and Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait/Piraeus at 1.4x and Attijariwafa/Barclays-Egypt estimated at 1.7-1.8x versus a P/B of 6.0x in SanPaolo/Bank of Alexandria (BOA) back in 2006 and a 4.0x book for the deal that was never completed of Banque du Caire in 2007.

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Capital markets drive the return on capital toward the cost of capital, primarily through adjustments in the price-to-book ratio. If capital returns exceed the cost of capital, the price-to-book ratio will increase (prices will be bid up) to bring the return on capital back down to the cost of capital, and vice versa.

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