NOUN
- the value at which an asset is carried on a balance sheet; equals cost minus accumulated depreciation
How To Use book value In A Sentence
- Book value can increase as a result of mergers, and it can go up if a company has just sold a lot of new equity.
- When the tax credit was in place, a person could buy a house for $8,000 down (the bluebook value of a 2005 Dodge Caravan). Tom Silva: Why Should We Care About Housing?
- Book value is the value of a company's assets if they were liquidated.
- World financials currently trade a multiple of 1.2 times book value, according to MSCI.
- Describe what is meant by the net book value and the written down value of an asset?
- Merrill Lynch analyst Guy Moszkowski raised his rating on Morgan Stanley to "buy," citing the capital infusion and saying the shares were "cheap" at 50 percent of book value.
- Any adjustments to the book value of accounts of an enterprise are not allowed, unless otherwise required by the State laws or regulations and the State uniform accounting system.
- It trades at a 40% discount to its book value, yet has prospects good enough to warrant a climb in its share price.
- The book value per share can – and usually does – differ substantially from a stock's market value.
- Banks usually trade at a discount to book value only if there is trouble ahead. Times, Sunday Times
