If you like our businesses, buying back stock
at tangible book value is a very good deal.
Haircut our earnings numbers that analysts project and forecast buying back, say, $ 10 billion a year for three years
at tangible book value.
«In prior years, I explained why buying back our stock
at tangible book value per share was a no - brainer..
Not exact matches
The firm attributes 30 % to 40 % of its profits to the U.S., and trades
at a bigger - than - average 75 % discount to
tangible book value.
I shared in my
book, The 5 Languages of Appreciation
at Work, five ways that people could show others they're
valued — through words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time,
tangible gifts and physical touch.
The company is trading
at 35 % discount to its
tangible book value.
At $ 45, shares trade at 166 % of estimated pro-forma tangible book value (NYSEMKT: TBV) of $ 27.0
At $ 45, shares trade
at 166 % of estimated pro-forma tangible book value (NYSEMKT: TBV) of $ 27.0
at 166 % of estimated pro-forma
tangible book value (NYSEMKT: TBV) of $ 27.05.
U.S. banks are now trading
at twice their
tangible book values, whereas many European banks are still trading
at or below their
tangible book values.
In that time the
tangible book value has compounded
at 11.8 % pa vs 5.2 % pa for the S&P 500.
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.
Pacific Energy is trading
at over 1.4 times its
book value and over 1.7 times its
tangible book value.
Vanshap employs a research - intensive process to identify businesses run by disciplined management teams trading
at low multiples of
tangible book value or cash earnings.
Selling
at a significant discount to our estimate of intrinsic
value and
at only a modest premium to
tangible book value, we think News Corp offers a compelling risk / reward profile.
Finally, looking
at valuation, European banks traded
at a material discount to
tangible book value, one standard deviation3 below their historic forward price - earnings multiple, and near a 20 - year low relative to global banking peers as the year came to a close.4 We are also finding select financial sector
values in Asia, in both mature, under - earning banking markets like South Korea and Singapore, as well as underpenetrated, growth - oriented markets like China (particularly in insurance) and India (particularly in banking).
In fact,
at a 75 % discount to growth on price - to -
tangible book value — two standard deviations below the average long - term level —
value hasn't been this cheap relative to growth since the peak of the» dotcom» bubble.2 But, is this unpopularity permanent?
I'm doing a lot of work on bank stocks lately, looking
at a lot of cheap stocks selling for significantly less than their
tangible book value.
The only conclusion that could be gleaned from this 10 - year backtest is that price to
tangible book value might be slightly better
at identifying
value opportunities than the standard price - to -
book ratio for stocks with the lowest price ratios.
The price to
tangible book value ratio to some degree overcomes this issue and more closely represents what common shareholders can expect to receive if the firm goes bankrupt and all of its assets are liquidated
at their
book values.
Based on June 2015, the
tangible book value was
at $ 9.54 a share, September 2015 is $ 1.63... I wonder what makes his significant drop.
Now,
book value is nowhere near perfect, but neither is it to be neglected, so neglect
book value, particularly
tangible book value at your peril.
However, if I look
at the developement of
book values for financial companies, I always look
at both, stated and
tangible book value per share.
The
tangible book value stands
at USD 195.1 m with USD 51.2 m in cash and roughly USD 40 m of real estate
at cost and no debt outstanding.
Alright, I took a look
at my
books and I was mistaken, they actually make an argument that
tangible book value is not always an accurate measure, especially in the case when the intangibles can be sold off in the case of a patent, rights, or copyright.
We believe the shares are worth well more than
tangible book value right now; thus we've been purchasing shares
at a good deal below 50 % of intrinsic
value.
BBND's
tangible book value at 31 March was $ 142M or $ 2.10 per share (~ 80 % of BBND's assets are cash and short term investments and it has no debt).
If anyone knows of any study explicitly examining the performance of stocks selected on the basis of price - to -
tangible book value, please shoot me an email
at greenbackd
at gmail or leave a comment in this post.
Pacific Energy is trading
at over 1.4 times its
book value and over 1.7 times its
tangible book value.
And, certainly, most of our businesses, if we sold them whole, would sell
at a substantial premium to
tangible book value.
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.
Unfortunately, we were restricted from buying back more stock when it was cheap — below
tangible book value — and we did not get permission to buy back stock until it was selling
at $ 45 a share.
At March 31, 2012, after giving pro forma effect to our receipt of the net proceeds of this offering, we would have had a pro forma net
tangible book value of $ 10,194,760, or $ 2.76 per share.
Our net
tangible book value at March 31, 2012 was $ 0.24 per share and was determined by dividing our actual net
tangible book value (total
book value of
tangible assets less total liabilities) on that date, by the number of outstanding shares (1,249,446) on March 31, 2012.
The short version of the thesis is that EGI is a well - reserved insurer trading
at 63 % of
tangible book value and, unlike many other lines of insurance, it may very well be entering a firming non-standard automobile market in Canada.
It is rare that the judges allow deals to go out
at less than
tangible book value, particularly on short - tailed P&C companies with little insolvency risk.
So, that's my preferred measure for how much has the underlying
value of the firm increased: growth in fully diluted
tangible book value (ex-AOCI), adding back dividends, and subtract out net equity issuance / buyback measured not
at cost, but
at the current market price.
[NB: i) Church House's Argo stake is held by the Deep
Value Investments Fund, managed by Jeroen Bos — if you haven't read it already, I can highly recommend his recent
book «Deep
Value Investing», ii) XXX Capital Management is a well - known European hedge fund, which hasn't publicly disclosed a holding in Argo to date, hence the redaction — Argo management are obviously aware of their shareholding & support, and iii) the letter was based on a GBP 14p share price & a higher GBP / USD rate —
at the current 13.875 p price and exchange rate, Argo now trades
at a 36 % discount to net cash and investments, and a 47 % discount to net
tangible assets.]
Growth in fully diluted
tangible book value (ex-AOCI) is a good measure of firm performance, if you add back dividends, and subtract out net equity issuance / buyback measured not
at cost, but
at the current market price.
With share price to
tangible book value trading
at such a large discount, the margin of safety is sizeable.
At its $ 12 close yesterday HAWK has a market capitalization of $ 142M, which is 30 % of its $ 443M or $ 36.6 per share in tangible book value as at March 3
At its $ 12 close yesterday HAWK has a market capitalization of $ 142M, which is 30 % of its $ 443M or $ 36.6 per share in
tangible book value as
at March 3
at March 31.
Their shares are generally
valued at below
tangible book value.
Then the stock price should be
at least
book value instead of
tangible book value.
The shares are also priced
at 1.95 x
tangible book value so investors should get 20.11 / 1.95 = 10.31 % return on the equity they hold per share.