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Lat Co (XKRX:311060) PB Ratio : 5.69 (As of Jun. 06, 2024)


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What is Lat Co PB Ratio?

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 (2024-06-06), Lat Co's share price is ₩4200.00. Lat Co's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was ₩738.06. Hence, Lat Co's PB Ratio of today is 5.69.

The historical rank and industry rank for Lat Co's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

XKRX:311060' s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.63   Med: 5.77   Max: 14.24
Current: 5.69

During the past 3 years, Lat Co's highest PB Ratio was 14.24. The lowest was 2.63. And the median was 5.77.

XKRX:311060's PB Ratio is ranked worse than
88.27% of 2923 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 1.84 vs XKRX:311060: 5.69

During the past 12 months, Lat Co's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -13.80% per year.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Lat Co PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Lat Co'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.

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Lat Co PB Ratio Chart

Lat Co Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
PB Ratio
8.26 2.80 4.95

Lat Co Semi-Annual Data
Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
PB Ratio 8.26 2.80 4.95

Competitive Comparison of Lat Co's PB Ratio

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Lat Co'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.


Lat Co's PB Ratio Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Lat Co's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lat Co's PB Ratio falls into.



Lat Co 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.

Lat Co's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Dec. 2023)
=4200.00/738.056
=5.69

* 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.


Lat Co  (XKRX:311060) PB Ratio Explanation

Unlike valuation ratios relative to the earning power such as PE Ratio, PE Ratio without NRI, PS Ratio, Price-to-Operating-Cash-Flow , or Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, the PB Ratio measures the valuation of the stock relative to the underlying asset of the company.

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.


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Lat Co (XKRX:311060) Business Description

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Address
766-2 Gosaek-dong, Gwonseon-gu, Pyeong-dong, Gyeonggi-do, 1433-100, Suwon, KOR, 16643
Lat Co Ltd is a Korean company which operates in the vacuum equipment industry. It manufactures semiconductor and display equipment, while its products offerings include Vacuum deposition equipment, Heat treatment devices, etching devices, fusion compound devices, and other devices. It offers products for industries including solar cells (MEMS, PACKAGE, PCB), displays (AMOLED, LCD), and renewable energy (crystalline, thin film solar cells).

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