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 (2024-04-23), BlackRock's share price is $766.62. BlackRock's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $264.96. Hence, BlackRock's PB Ratio of today is 2.89.
The historical rank and industry rank for BlackRock's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
BLK'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.64 Med: 2.33 Max: 4.04
Current: 2.89
During the past 13 years, BlackRock's highest PB Ratio was 4.04. The lowest was 1.64. And the median was 2.33.
BLK's PB Ratio is ranked worse than 90.96% of 1692
companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.92
vs BLK: 2.89
During the past 12 months, BlackRock's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 5.10% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 4.60% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 5.40% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 5.70% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of BlackRock was 102.70% per year. The lowest was 4.40% per year. And the median was 6.80% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
BlackRock PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for BlackRock'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 Asset Management subindustry, BlackRock'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.
BlackRock PB Ratio Distribution
For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, BlackRock's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where BlackRock's PB Ratio falls into.
BlackRock 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.
BlackRock'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.
BlackRock PB Ratio Related Terms
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BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world, with $9.101 trillion in AUM at the end of September 2023. Product mix is fairly diverse, with 52% of the firm's managed assets in equity strategies, 28% in fixed income, 9% in multi-asset class, 8% in money market funds, and 3% in alternatives. Passive strategies account for around two thirds of long-term AUM, with the company's ETF platform maintaining a leading market share domestically and on a global basis. Product distribution is weighted more toward institutional clients, which by our calculations account for around 80% of AUM. BlackRock is also geographically diverse, with clients in more than 100 countries and more than one third of managed assets coming from investors domiciled outside the U.S. and Canada.
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