The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2024-05-03), Bentley Systems's share price is $51.72. Bentley Systems's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $2.98. Hence, Bentley Systems's PB Ratio of today is 17.35.
Good Sign:
Bentley Systems Inc stock PB Ratio (=17.27) is close to 5-year low of 15.68
The historical rank and industry rank for Bentley Systems's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
BSY'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 15.68 Med: 23.71 Max: 1481.11
Current: 17.36
During the past 6 years, Bentley Systems's highest PB Ratio was 1481.11. The lowest was 15.68. And the median was 23.71.
BSY's PB Ratio is ranked worse than 94.03% of 2581
companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.66
vs BSY: 17.36
During the past 12 months, Bentley Systems's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 50.40% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 33.40% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 32.20% per year.
During the past 6 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Bentley Systems was 36.90% per year. The lowest was 15.70% per year. And the median was 33.40% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Bentley Systems PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Bentley Systems's PB Ratio can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Bentley Systems's PB Ratio
For the Software - Application subindustry, Bentley Systems's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Bentley Systems's PB Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Bentley Systems's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Bentley Systems's PB Ratio falls into.
Bentley Systems PB Ratio Calculation
The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.
Bentley Systems's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.
The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.
Be Aware
Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.
Bentley Systems PB Ratio Related Terms
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Bentley Systems (Bentley Systems) Business Description
Bentley Systems is a software vendor that caters to engineers, architects, constructors, and geospatial professionals by enabling design, modeling, simulation and project, and data management of infrastructure assets. The firm delivers solutions via the cloud, desktop, and hybrid environments. While Bentley is relatively small in comparison with peers like Autodesk, it shines in core specialty areas, like bridge or rail design, as opposed to being more broad-based in its applications. As of fiscal 2022, approximately 58% of revenue is derived from outside the U.S. (with 28% of revenue coming from EMEA and 18% coming from APAC as of fiscal 2022). Bentley's largest end market is the public works and utilities sector, which represents approximately two thirds of revenue.
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