Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The price-to-book (P/B) ratio is widely favored by value investors for identifying low-priced stocks with exceptional returns. The ratio is used to compare a stock’s market value/price to its book ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Navin is a Colorado-based journalist who writes about stocks. Wall Street lost interest in the concept years ago as the big ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Navin is a Colorado-based journalist who writes about stocks. Below book value stocks are known in the investment world as ...

When evaluating a company, investors mostly look at a stock’s price-to-earnings (P/E) or price-to-sales (P/S) ratio. While P/E is the ratio of annual earnings to stock price, P/S reflects the amount ...

Medical Properties Trust is currently undervalued, trading at a 50% discount to book value, offering a 7% dividend yield, and a forward FFO yield of nearly 20%. The company missed earnings ...

Among the valuation metrics, price-to-earnings (P/E) and price-to-sales (P/S) are more commonly used for stock selection. This is because calculations based on earnings and, to some extent, sales are ...

Value investors actively look for stocks that they think the market has undervalued. It is their belief that the market overreacts to good and bad news, which results in stock price movements that do ...

In value analysis, though price to earnings (P/E) and price to sales (P/S) are most preferred by investors, the underrated price-to-book ratio (P/B ratio) is also an easy-to-use valuation tool for ...