KWG has all but eliminated its gaping NAV discount, which was obviously one of the key attractions for me originally — it now trades on a mere 4 % discount to
its latest book value per share.
Not exact matches
It is calculated by dividing the current closing price of the stock by the
latest quarter's
book value per share.
The price to tangible
book value ratio is simply the current price of the stock divided by the
latest quarterly tangible
book value per share.
However, when year - end 2016 financials were filed a couple of months
later some of that cash and a good bit of
book value had disappeared into the vortex; cash dropped from $ 50 million to $ 32 million, but more worrisome,
book value dropped from ($.78)
per share to ($ 5.29)
per share.
Meanwhile the cash hoard is building and the market is beginning to notice; the
share price has finally moved up from the mid / upper 20's to around $ 34
per share with the
latest announcements and is now trading for just over 80 % of stated
book value and 88 % of post transaction cash
value.
The first filter looks for companies with a current return on equity (earnings
per share over the
latest 12 months divided by
book value per share as of the
latest quarter) greater than the post-World War II average of 14 %.