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LWSOF (Lawson) PB Ratio : (As of Dec. 01, 2024)


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What is Lawson PB Ratio?

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 (2024-12-01), Lawson's share price is $2490909411.46. Lawson's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in May. 2024 was $0.00. Hence, Lawson's PB Ratio of today is .

The historical rank and industry rank for Lawson's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

During the past 13 years, Lawson's highest PB Ratio was 99999999.99. The lowest was 1.56. And the median was 2.51.

LWSOF's PB Ratio is not ranked *
in the Retail - Defensive industry.
Industry Median: 1.79
* Ranked among companies with meaningful PB Ratio only.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Lawson PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Lawson'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.

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Lawson PB Ratio Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Lawson's PB Ratio

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Lawson'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.


Lawson's PB Ratio Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Lawson's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lawson's PB Ratio falls into.



Lawson 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.

Lawson's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: May. 2024)
=2490909411.46/
=

* 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.


Lawson  (OTCPK:LWSOF) PB Ratio Explanation

Unlike valuation ratios relative to the earning power such as PE Ratio, PE Ratio without NRI, PS Ratio, Price-to-Operating-Cash-Flow , or Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, the PB Ratio measures the valuation of the stock relative to the underlying asset of the company.

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.


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Lawson Business Description

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Address
East Tower, Gate City Osaki, 11-2, Osaki 1-chome, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JPN, 141-8643
Lawson is the third-largest convenience-store operator in Japan with more than 14,500 stores domestically, and more than 3,400 stores overseas with more than 90% of stores located in China. Convenience-store operations inclusive of franchise fees represent about 55% of group operating revenue and 75% of operating profits. Other activities include Seijo Ishii (an upscale food-store chain with 163 stores in Japan as of November 2020) and entertainment businesses comprising cinema operations with 43 theaters, the HMV music store chain, and Lawson HMV ticketing services.

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