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Costain Group (LSE:COST) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio : 0.68 (As of May. 29, 2024)


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What is Costain Group Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio?

As of today (2024-05-29), Costain Group's current share price is £0.842. Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec23 was £1.23. Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is 0.68.

The historical rank and industry rank for Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:COST' s Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.31   Med: 1.87   Max: 18.4
Current: 0.68

During the past 13 years, Costain Group's highest Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio was 18.40. The lowest was 0.31. And the median was 1.87.

LSE:COST's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio is ranked better than
71.65% of 1224 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 1.115 vs LSE:COST: 0.68

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio. The Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted book value per share of a company over the past 10 years.

Costain Group's adjusted book value per share data of for the fiscal year that ended in Dec23 was £0.793. Add all the adjusted book value per share for the past 10 years together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share, which is £1.23 for the trailing ten years ended in Dec23.

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Costain Group Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted 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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Costain Group Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Chart

Costain Group Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.49 0.59 0.50 0.33 0.51

Costain Group Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.50 - 0.33 - 0.51

Competitive Comparison of Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted 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.


Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio falls into.



Costain Group Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio takes the Book Value per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/B calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPB Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio.

Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share
=0.842/1.23
=0.68

* 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.

Costain Group's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec23 is calculated as:

For example, Costain Group's adjusted Book Value per Share data for the fiscal year that ended in Dec23 was:

Adj_Book=Book Value per Share/CPI of Dec23 (Change)*Current CPI (Dec23)
=0.793/130.5000*130.5000
=0.793

Current CPI (Dec23) = 130.5000.

Costain Group Annual Data

Book Value per Share CPI Adj_Book
201412 1.030 99.900 1.345
201512 1.112 100.400 1.445
201612 0.899 102.200 1.148
201712 1.373 105.000 1.706
201812 1.603 107.100 1.953
201912 1.371 108.500 1.649
202012 0.569 109.400 0.679
202112 0.724 114.700 0.824
202212 0.768 125.300 0.800
202312 0.793 130.500 0.793

Add all the adjusted book value per share together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


Costain Group  (LSE:COST) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PB Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of book value during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio should give similar results to regular PB Ratio.


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Costain Group (LSE:COST) Business Description

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Address
Costain House, Vanwall Business Park, Maidenhead, Berkshire, GBR, SL6 4UB
Costain Group PLC offers solutions and services. It provides engineering and technology solutions and advisory and development, design, management, project delivery, technology integration and asset optimization and support services to highways, nuclear, oil and gas, power, water sectors, rail. The company has two segments Transportation and Natural resources. Transportation segment covers highways, rail and nuclear markets and Natural resources segment comprises of water, power and oil and gas markets.