How to Use book value in a Sentence

book value

noun
  • The stock trades at 30 times its book value.
    — John Navin, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The stock trades at a 5% discount to its book value.
    — John Navin, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The Lions even got above book value in their trade up to get him.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2020
  • The stock can be purchased at 49% of its book value.
    — John Navin, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The stock sells for less than book value (corporate net worth per share).
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 5 July 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
  • Such a company can also be worth much more than its book value.
    — Dallas News, 3 May 2020
  • The stockmarket values its shares at just half of net book value.
    — The Economist, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Stock price less than 3 times book value (corporate net worth per share).
    — John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The stock trades at just over its book value with a price-earnings ratio of 10.
    — John Navin, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The stock is available for purchase at a 5% discount to its book value.
    — John Navin, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Well, these funds are trading at discounts as large as 32% off their book values.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • 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
  • The ones that mean the most have sentimental value rather than book value.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the stock trades at less than half book value following a string of scandals.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Over the past five years its book value has grown by a compound annual rate of 11%.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Still, the bank’s shares trade in line with its book value, suggesting returns will improve.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • The price-earnings ratio is 65 and the stock goes for 20 times book value.
    — John Navin, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The stock’s discount to book value was around 78% based on its share price Wednesday.
    — Margot Patrick, WSJ, 9 June 2021
  • 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 cheap, selling for 11 times earnings and 82% of book value.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Five9 has an economic book value, or no growth value, of -$5/share.
    — David Trainer, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The company’s shares can be purchased today at 92% of their book value.
    — John Navin, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Its stockmarket worth is 15% below the book value of its assets.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • This would cut the state’s 62% stake while boosting RBS’s book value per share.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • Value investors such as Graham sought the rare companies with a book value greater than the share price.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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