Value investors have, over the years, preferred the price-to-earnings ratio or P/E, as a means to identify value stocks. However, in the case of loss-making companies that have a negative ...

The price-to-book ratio, or P/B ratio, looks at a company from a different angle. It compares the stock’s market ...

In value investing, it is a common practice to pick stocks that are cheap but fundamentally strong. There are a number of investment styles to suit the predilection of hundreds of investors looking ...

Value analysis is the best approach to identifying great bargains. Though price-to-earnings (P/E) and price-to-sales (P/S) valuation tools are more commonly used for stock selection, the price-to-book ...

A low price relative to book value used to signal a bargain. Nowadays it provides only a hint of value. Divide a company’s market capitalization by its shareholders’ equity and you get the price to ...

Deutsche Bank’s stock has finally traded above its book value for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis. On Monday, ...

Value investors rarely agree on how to pick stocks. Their objective is generally the same — to buy companies as cheaply as possible — but there’s no consensus about how to measure cheapness. Some look ...