Interesting and sometimes compelling idea that may be very illiquid, may be a probability bet with a favourable asymmetrical reward to risk ratio, or may simply be a low quality business that is very cheap relative on a net - net working capital or price /
tangible book value basis.
Not exact matches
The initial public offering price is substantially higher than the pro forma net
tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately following this offering
based on the total
value of our
tangible assets less our total liabilities.
Therefore, if you purchase our common stock in this offering, you will incur an immediate dilution of $ in net
tangible book value per share from the price you paid,
based on an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover of this prospectus).
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.
There are two quick down and dirty ways to assess stocks on a fundamental
basis: Cash Flow (Operating Company) &
Tangible Book Value (Asset
Based Company).
I've found that it is difficult to impossible to find any research examining the performance of stocks selected on the
basis of price - to -
tangible book value.
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.
Stocks were selected and held only if they appeared undervalued
based on ratios like price to earnings, price to «owner earnings» (similar to free cash flow), enterprise
value to operating earnings, and price to
tangible book.
[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.]
However, I am not averse to traditional
value plays
based on discount to
tangible book when the opportunity arises.