Metalico's book value per share for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was €1.12.
During the past 12 months, Metalico's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -58.00% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -25.50% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -10.40% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 4.60% per year.
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During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Metalico was 59.20% per year. The lowest was -25.50% per year. And the median was 6.15% per year.
Metalico's current price is €0.50. Its book value per share for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was €1.12. Hence, today's PB Ratio of Metalico is 0.45.
During the past 13 years, the highest P/B Ratio of Metalico was 3.86. The lowest was 0.13. And the median was 1.19.
Metalico Book Value per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Metalico's Book Value per Share 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 Metalico's Book Value per Share
For the Metal Fabrication subindustry, Metalico'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.
Metalico's PB Ratio Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Metalico's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Metalico's PB Ratio falls into.
Metalico Book Value per Share Calculation
Metalico's Book Value Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as:
* 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.
Book value may include intangible items which may come from the company's past acquisitions. Book value less intangibles is called Tangible Book.
Metalico (FRA:MT5) Book Value per Share Explanation
Usually a company's book value and Tangible Book per Share may not reflect its true value. The assets may be carried on the balance sheets at the original cost minus depreciation. This may underestimate the true economic values of the assets. It also may over-estimate their true economic value because the assets can become obsolete.
For financial companies such as banks and insurance companies, their assets may be reported in current market value of the assets owned. Book values of financial companies are more accurate indicator of the economic value of the company.
Metalico Book Value per Share Related Terms
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Metalico Inc was originally organized as a Delaware corporation in August 1997. The Company along with its subsidiaries operates in two distinct business segments; scrap metal recycling and lead metal product fabricating. The Companys operating facilities include thirty-one scrap metal recycling facilities, including a combined aluminum de-oxidizing plant and four lead product manufacturing and fabricating plants. In the Scrap Metal Recycling segment, its operations mainly involves the collection and processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. It collects industrial and obsolete scrap metal, process it into reusable forms and supply the recycled metals to its consumers that include electric arc furnace mills, integrated steel mills, foundries, secondary smelters, aluminum recyclers and metal brokers. The Company acquires unprocessed scrap metals mainly in its local and regional markets and sells to consumers nationally and in Canada as well as to exporters and international brokers. Some of the metal commodities it recycles include steel, copper, aluminum, stainless steel, molybdenum, tantalum, platinum, lead and many others. In Lead Fabricating segment, through four physical operations located in three states, the Company consumes approximately 40 to 45 million pounds of lead metal per year that are utilized in more than one hundred different base products. Its products are sold nationally into diverse industries such as roofing, plumbing, radiation shielding for pharmaceutical and power generation, electronic solders, ammunition, automotive, Department of Defense contractors, and others. The Company sells its lead fabrications nationally. Products are sold to distributors, wholesalers, the plumbing and building trades, equipment manufacturers and other consumers. Its lead fabrication facilities compete against two fabricators of similar, but limited products based in the Southwest who distribute nationally and several smaller regional producers of similar products. To a lesser extent, it also competes against products imported from South America, Canada, Europe and Asia. The Company is subject to comprehensive and frequently changing Federal, state and local laws and regulations.
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