The government would claim no doubt, that
the book value of the debt is $ 26 billion dollars; but quite frankly that's a weak argument.
The only reason why
the book value of the debt is $ 26 billion is because we are applying today's exchange rate which the same government succeed in collapsing to the value of the debt; and not the exchange rate at the time the money was borrowed.
This is because book values of assets (and hence equity) are usually lower than their market value (e.g. due to historical cost convention and impairment losses) whereas
the book value of debt remains relatively close to its market value (e.g. interest on bank loan is usually adjusted periodically in line with prevailing market interest rates).
One version of the takeover multiple is the ratio of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) to enterprise value (market value of equity plus
book value of debt minus cash).
Not exact matches
It's trading at a cheap 0.9 times
book value and has a low
debt to common equity
of 16.4 %.
So regardless
of whether or not earnings can actually carry
debt burdens, or how aggressively bad investments are being written down from
book value, investors need never know.
While the current price / peak - earnings multiple is already at an elevated level above 18, what I'll call the «P / E equivalent» multiples on other fundamentals are: 21 on the basis
of book values, nearly 23 on the basis
of enterprise
value / EBITDA (which factors in the increasing share
of debt on corporate balance sheets), over 25 on the basis
of revenues, and 29 on the basis
of dividends (largely because dividend payout ratios remain relatively low even on the basis
of normalized earnings).
It may be pertinent to mention that the
book value of the power plant which is currently estimated at USD 325 million after five (5) years, with a life cycle
of around 15 -20 years, will be handed over to the Government as a
debt free asset which can be used to leverage and raise financing as a collateral or else the Government may choose to sell the operating asset to any investor who may not like to take any development risk, hence the plant being operational and in its best conditions.
Book value is the fair
value of a company's assets that, theoretically, shareholders would receive if the company were liquidated (meaning it sold all
of its assets and paid all
of its
debt).
We assume that the
book value and market
value of debt equal, therefore, we escape the difficult task
of predicting either one with accuracy.
In personal finance, the
book value of an investment is the price paid for a security or
debt investment.
Buy cheap stocks relative to
book value that don't have a lot
of debt.
Among these are avoiding companies with too much
debt; looking for a margin
of safety, such as over - 2.0 current ratio (current assets dividend by current liabilities); and seeking stocks trading at low price - earnings ratios and low price - to -
book -
value ratios.
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.
Recently, SFAS 159 has come into the news because some securities firms used it to
book gains because the market
value of debt that they issued had fallen.
Ignoring this for a moment, gross
debt of USD 119 M amounts to 59 %
of vessel
book value, well inside the usual 50 - 65 % range I'd expect to see.
This was a company that was spun out
of Pride International (which announced that it was being taken over with a nice little premium a week or so ago, thank you) 18 months ago with no
debt and assets with a
book value of over $ 35 per share, including substantial cash.
A number
of more recent papers have moved away from
book - to - market, and towards the enterprise multiple -LRB-(equity
value +
debt + preferred stock — cash) / (EBITDA)-RRB-.
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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).
Could you comment on the
debt and negative
book value of RYAM?
The basics
of Earnings per share (EPS), P / E Ratio,
Book Value, P / BV, Dividend, Return on Equity (ROE), Return on capital employed (ROCE),
debt / equity ratio etc should be known to you before you analyze a stock.
This can cause an inconsistency in the measurement
of the
debt - equity ratio because equity will usually be understated relative to
debt where
book values are used.
There is a lot more that could be said about Emeco, but what truly matters is that they own a lot
of idle equipment, and that equipment can probably be sold close to
book value to manage their
debt level.
Source: The American Association
of Individual Investors; * «Campbell Soup Companies» meant those with a long history and that Schloss considered stable and well known Overall, Schloss screened for companies ideally trading at discounts to
book value, with no or low
debt, and managements that owned enough company stock to make them want to do the right thing by shareholders.
And also, Reading's tangible
book value will rise from both accrued interest reversal and the substantial reduction
of balance sheet goodwill associated with the
debt principal reduction.
Let's simplify the liquidation & assume total PPE
of 15.4 M can be sold off (for
book value) & used to retire net
debt of 7.8 M — that's a realized NAV
of 7.6 M.
In this awkward situation you continue to produce oil, because it may keep you from defaulting on your
debts, even though you are not earning what is needed to justify the GAAP
book value of your firm.
The company's financial performance, including its record
of earnings, dividends,
debt - to - equity ratio, dividend payout ratio,
book value and cash flow.
Book value tells you the accounting
value of a firm after it pays all
of its
debt.
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Debt / Assets Ratio, Elsztain, farmland, IRSA, Margin
of Safety, Owner - Operator, Price /
Book,
value investing
On emergence, the company had a
book value of about $ 38 / share (remember this represents «fresh start accounting
value», an estimate
of true asset
value at the time
of exit from bankruptcy, not a historical cost number) and about $ 0.9 billion in long - term
debt vs. pre-petition
debt of $ 4.8 billion
Since mortgage REITs are really just a portfolio
of leveraged
debt investments,
book value is everything.
A glance at key statistics shows cash ($ 2.4 B) far higher than
debt ($ 1.57 B) and a
book value per share
of $ 8.55.
If you choose to pay it off through marital proceeds, only half the
debt is your responsibility, but half
of the asset's
book value gets credited to you as well.
In fact, with a
debt to total assets ratio
of approximately 98 percent, virtually any bid General Growth receives in today's environment will be at a discount to the
book value of its properties, says Suzanne Mulvee, senior real estate economist with Property & Portfolio Research, a Boston - based research firm.