This being retail, actually the former is probably more appropriate, but you can't teach an old dog new tricks; I have always liked to
use tangible book value as a proxy for intrinsic value, so that's what I did here.
Not exact matches
Shortly after running that backtest, I realized that many
value investors probably actually prefer
using price to
tangible book value.
A ratio
used to compare a stock's market valuation to its (
tangible)
book value.
Using the measure of
tangible book value per share penalizes acquisitive companies, unless they can buy companies for less than their
tangible book value per share.
Yet how many CEOs gain bonuses partially off of sales and other meaningless criteria — far better to
use something like five - year increase in fully converted
tangible book value per share.