5 Low Price-to-Book Stocks to Include in Your Portfolio for Gains
When evaluating a company’s value, investors mostly look at the stock’s price-to-earnings (P/E) or price-to-sales (P/S) ratio. While P/E is the ratio of annual earnings to stock price, P/S reflects the amount investors pay for each dollar of revenues generated by the company.
Though P/E and P/S valuation tools are more commonly used for stock selection, the price-to-book ratio (P/B ratio) is also an easy-to-use metric for identifying low-priced stocks with high-growth prospects.
P/B is the ratio of stock price to book value.
It is calculated as below:
P/B ratio = market capitalization/book value of equity
The P/B ratio helps identify low-priced stocks with high growth prospects. JD.com JD, City Office REIT CIO, Fresenius…
