How to Use book value in a Sentence

book value

noun

• 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
• Disney is selling at 22 times earnings and 5 times book value.
  — Matt Schifrin, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Lee noted that small-cap stocks are a particularly good buy relative to the value of the assets on their balance sheets, called book value.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024