Price to Book Value Ratio (P/B ratio)
Investors spend time in identifying companies with strong profits and growth prospects. Before investing in the stock market, the uncertainties, the ups and downs, questions like what is the fair value of the share, what price should I pay for a company’s shares etc. become relevant, rightly so. Various valuation techniques like the price to […]
Short term financial position – analysis of working capital
In order to meet immediate obligations as they arise in the regular course of business, companies often rely on short term finance (i.e. loans and credit facilities that must be repaid in less than 1 year). The short term liabilities for a business consist of items such as accounts payable, taxes, utilities payable and other accrued expenses. In […]
Looking for Debt Free Companies in India
There are increasing numbers of Indian companies which are finding themselves in a debt trap, with their entire operating profits not sufficient to meet their finance charges. Worst still, a lot of these companies have negative operating profits and a huge interest burden on top of that. Look at the examples below: One could be wishful and hope that […]
Ideal Capital Structure: Looking for the right debt-equity mix
To ascertain the financial health of a company, amongst other things, it is important to analyze the capital structure of the company to understand how much of borrowed money does the company operate with. One of the most important financial indicator and which gets every investors attention is the debt to equity ratio. The capital structure of a company […]
ROCE vs ROE
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) and Return on Equity (ROE) (also called– Return on Net Worth (RONW)) are both used to measure the profitability of a company based on the funds with which the company conducts its business. ROE measures the amount of profit generated by the company on the total amount of shareholder’s equity whereas; ROCE highlights the […]
Top Line and Bottom Line Profitability
Often analysts and proprietors get into the top line and bottom line profitability growth figures. What are they talking about? To understand this, refer to any financial statement, for example — Ashok Leyland Top line refers to gross sales or total income from operations generated by the company in a given period (i.e. this is the first line item […]
Price Earnings Ratio Method–Standalone and consolidated Methodology
The Price Earnings Ratio Method is one of the most basic and widely used methods for valuing companies. In this approach, the price of a company’s share listed on an exchange is divided by its reported Earnings Per Share (“EPS”). The Price to Earnings Ratio thus derived is compared with the industry PE Ratio to determine if there is […]