The Price/Book of Mühlbauer Holding AG & Co. KGaA is 2.69
Price to book ratio represents the ratio between a company’s stock value and the book value per share.
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The price to book ratio, or P/B ratio, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's current market price to its book value. It is also sometimes known as a market to book ratio or price to equity ratio. The calculation of a price to book ratio can be performed in two ways. It can be calculated as the company's market capitalization divided by the company's total book value from its balance sheet. It can also be calculated using per-share values and dividing a company's current share price by the book value per share (i.e. its book value divided by the number of outstanding shares).
The P/B ratio varies between industries. The industries that require more infrastructure capital (for each dollar of profit) will usually trade at P/B ratios much lower than, for example, consulting firms. P/B ratios are commonly used to compare banks, because most assets and liabilities of banks are constantly valued at market values. A higher P/B ratio implies that investors expect management to create more value from a given set of assets, all else equal (and/or that the market value of the firm's assets is significantly higher than their accounting value).
P/B ratios do not, however, directly provide any information on the ability of the firm to generate profits or cash for shareholders. This ratio also gives some idea of whether an investor is paying too much for what would be left if the company went bankrupt immediately. For companies in distress, the book value is usually calculated without the intangible assets that would have no resale value. In such cases, P/B should also be calculated on a "diluted" basis, because stock options may well vest on sale of the company or change of control or firing of management.
Mühlbauer Holding AG engages in the production and personalization of smart cards, passports, and RFID solutions worldwide. The company develops and assembles customized production systems, as well as provides matching software solutions for the production process of document and solution related products. It also provides semiconductor related products, such as die sorting, carrier tapes, flip chips for LED, RFID/SMART labels, flexible solar technology, and multicomponent flexible electronic; vision inspection products, such as TEMA security inspection and TEMA industrial inspection equipment; and accessories, such as card measuring stations, UV-lamps, thread counters, color fans, tool trollies, and cardboard cartons for cards. In addition, the company offers emobility, flexible solar, and flexible electronics solutions; and government solutions, which include ID card, e-passport, driver's license and vehicle registration, document verification, border management, e-government, and production facility solutions. Further, it offers automation, marking, and traceability systems, as well as government and industry specific software solutions; and operates in the solar back-end industry. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Roding, Germany.