Alcon (ALC) 3-Year Book Growth Rate : 1.90% (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is Alcon 3-Year Book Growth Rate?

Alcon's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $41.81.

During the past 12 months, Alcon's average Book Value per Share Growth Rate was -3.30% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Book Value per Share Growth Rate was 1.90% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Book Value per Share Growth Rate was -3.50% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average Book Value per Share growth rate.

During the past 8 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value per Share Growth Rate of Alcon was 1.90% per year. The lowest was -9.80% per year. And the median was -4.50% per year.

Competitive Comparison of Alcon's 3-Year Book Growth Rate

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Alcon's 3-Year Book Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year Book Growth Rate 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.

Alcon's 3-Year Book Growth Rate Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Alcon's 3-Year Book Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Alcon's 3-Year Book Growth Rate falls into.

Alcon 3-Year Book Growth Rate Calculation

This is the 3-year average growth rate of Book Value per Share. The growth rate is calculated using exponential compounding based on the latest four year annual data.

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Alcon (NYSE:ALC) 3-Year Book Growth Rate Explanation

Book Value per Share is the ratio of equity available to common shareholders divided by the shares outstanding. Book value per share effectively indicates a firm's net asset value on a per-share basis. It can be used by investors to gauge whether a stock price is undervalued by comparing it to the firm's market value per share. Theoretically, it is what the shareholders will receive if the company is liquidated.

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Alcon is one of the leading visioncare companies in the world. Following nine years as a Novartis subsidiary, it was spun off as a public company in April 2019. Alcon operates in two segments: visioncare and surgical. Visioncare comprises contact lenses, lenscare solutions, and a suite of ocular health products. With brands like Dailies, Total1, and Air Optix, Alcon controls one fourth of the U.S. contact lens market. Surgical comprises intraocular lenses, ophthalmic surgical equipment, and consumables used during surgeries. Its main products include Centurion, a phacoemulsification device used during cataract surgeries, and a portfolio of IOLs including PanOptix and Vivity. Alcon has one of the largest installed bases of eye surgical equipment in the world.