How to Use book value in a Sentence

book value

noun
Definition of book valuenext
  • Wells Fargo didn’t report a great quarter, but the stock has been hit hard and is barely trading above its book value per share of $48.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The fact that Panasonic is trading below book value is cause for concern, the CEO said.
    — Yuki Furukawa, Fortune, 15 July 2024
  • In fact, the bank's price-to-book value is the highest of the largest U.S. banks by far.
    — Matthew Frankel, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The line, which is the more valuable than the coal plant, had a book value of $225 million.
    — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • This is the ratio of the S&P 500 to per-share book value, which is a measure of net worth.
    — Mark Hulbert, WSJ, 4 June 2022
  • The Lions even got above book value in their trade up to get him.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Gautrey said the banks are trading at a 30% to 40% discount to book value.
    — R.j. Shook, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The stock is a bargain, trading for just 90% of book value.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • After it was unveiled, the share price fell to new lows, of just a fifth of net book value.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • This would cut the state’s 62% stake while boosting RBS’s book value per share.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • The stock’s discount to book value was around 78% based on its share price Wednesday.
    — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 9 June 2021
  • On a per-share basis, that was a book value gain of 23%, the best result in almost 20 years.
    — Carol J. Loomis, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2018
  • The drop in British pound also adds to the attractiveness of the bank that trades at just 0.56 times its book value.
    — Dinesh Nair, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The firm bought its position at around book value per share, which was $71.67 in the first quarter.
    — David Benoit, WSJ, 7 May 2018
  • The stock sells for less than book value (corporate net worth per share).
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Over the past five years its book value has grown by a compound annual rate of 11%.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Intrepid Potash trades with a price-earnings ratio of 2 and at 84% of book value.
    — John Navin, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The tax benefit made up a hefty 45 percent of the book value increase.
    — Peter Eavis and Stephen Grocer, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
  • First Republic trades at about one-fifth of its book value, down from more than two times a year ago.
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Shares fell about 4%, trading near 0.45 times book value.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The stockmarket values its shares at just half of net book value.
    — The Economist, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The South African gold miner trades at a 90% discount to its book value, has no long-term debt and pays a dividend of .77%.
    — John Navin, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • The bank is trading at about 20% of tangible book value.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The ones that mean the most have sentimental value rather than book value.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The company trades a just barely over 2 times book value.
    — John Navin, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the stock trades at less than half book value following a string of scandals.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Yet Hilbert paid a king's ransom of over $7.6 billion for the struggling lender, more than seven times its book value.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The shares have roughly doubled from their nadir last spring to trade on 0.47 times tangible book value.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Shares of both banks have tumbled in recent years, and the two trade at substantial discounts to the book value of their assets.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2019
  • Such a company can also be worth much more than its book value.
    — Dallas News, 3 May 2020

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