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 (2024-05-01), Aqua Metals's share price is $0.466. Aqua Metals's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.24. Hence, Aqua Metals's PB Ratio of today is 1.93.
The historical rank and industry rank for Aqua Metals's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
AQMS'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.43 Med: 2.24 Max: 12.44
Current: 1.94
During the past 10 years, Aqua Metals's highest PB Ratio was 12.44. The lowest was 0.43. And the median was 2.24.
AQMS's PB Ratio is ranked worse than 59.91% of 232
companies
in the Waste Management industry
Industry Median: 1.45
vs AQMS: 1.94
During the past 12 months, Aqua Metals's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -8.00% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -20.60% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -29.20% per year.
During the past 10 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Aqua Metals was -18.50% per year. The lowest was -39.10% per year. And the median was -32.65% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Aqua Metals PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Aqua Metals'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.
For the Waste Management subindustry, Aqua Metals'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.
Aqua Metals's PB Ratio Distribution in the Waste Management Industry
For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Aqua Metals's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Aqua Metals's PB Ratio falls into.
Aqua Metals 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.
Aqua Metals'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.
Aqua Metals PB Ratio Related Terms
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Aqua Metals Inc is a United States-based company engaged in the business of recycling Lead through a novel, proprietary and patent-pending process that it developed and named AquaRefining. The company's breakthrough, AquaRefining, delivers a product, at a higher yield, eliminates toxic waste, reduces permitting and is less expensive to build than smelting. AquaRefining process will provide for the recycling of Lead acid batteries and the production of a pure grade Lead with a significantly lower cost of production, and with fewer environmental and regulatory issues, than conventional methods of Lead production.
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