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 (2024-04-24), Chesapeake Utilities's share price is $106.71. Chesapeake Utilities's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $56.04. Hence, Chesapeake Utilities's PB Ratio of today is 1.90.
Good Sign:
Chesapeake Utilities Corp stock PB Ratio (=1.89) is close to 10-year low of 1.78
The historical rank and industry rank for Chesapeake Utilities's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
CPK'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.78 Med: 2.54 Max: 3.33
Current: 1.9
During the past 13 years, Chesapeake Utilities's highest PB Ratio was 3.33. The lowest was 1.78. And the median was 2.54.
CPK's PB Ratio is ranked worse than 66.21% of 512
companies
in the Utilities - Regulated industry
Industry Median: 1.4
vs CPK: 1.90
During the past 12 months, Chesapeake Utilities's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 19.40% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 12.00% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 11.80% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 10.90% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Chesapeake Utilities was 13.10% per year. The lowest was -2.40% per year. And the median was 7.80% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
Chesapeake Utilities PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Chesapeake Utilities'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 Utilities - Regulated Gas subindustry, Chesapeake Utilities'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.
Chesapeake Utilities PB Ratio Distribution
For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Chesapeake Utilities's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Chesapeake Utilities's PB Ratio falls into.
Chesapeake Utilities 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.
Chesapeake Utilities'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.
Chesapeake Utilities (NYSE:CPK) PB Ratio Explanation
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.
Chesapeake Utilities PB Ratio Related Terms
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Chesapeake Utilities (Chesapeake Utilities) Business Description
Chesapeake Utilities Corp is a diversified energy delivery company that is engaged in natural gas transmission and distribution, electricity generation and distribution, propane gas distribution, mobile compressed natural gas utility services and solutions and other businesses. The company operates in two reportable segments, Regulated Energy and Unregulated Energy. The company's natural gas and electric distribution operations in Delaware, Maryland and Florida are subject to regulation by their respective PSC. Eastern Shore, its natural gas transmission subsidiary, is subject to regulation by the FERC and Peninsula Pipeline and Aspire Energy Express, its intrastate pipeline subsidiaries, are subject to regulation by the Florida PSC and Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, respectively.
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