The historical cost accounting principle, which tends to understate certain asset values, and the supply and demand forces of the marketplace generally push stock prices
above book value per share valuations.
Not exact matches
Offering bank investors a view of the company stock, Dimon contended that it still made financial sense for JPMorgan to buy back
shares «even at or
above two times tangible
book value»
per share, which was $ 53.56 at year - end.
In the formula
above, Price is the
share price, EPS is earnings
per share, and BPS is
book value per share.
If you run the same numbers as
above, but at $ 45
per share, buybacks would be accretive to earnings and approximately break even to tangible
book value — still attractive but far less so.
The tables
above show our earnings
per share and tangible
book value per share over the last six years.
Marketing add - on issues
above book value with regularity made it possible for the companies to report modestly increasing earnings
per share year by year.