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Southland, a company that provides pager services, has been a consistent money loser, but that did not stop its shares from soaring from a bid price of $8.875 on March 13 to $16.75 on April 3. On that date, the S.E.C. said, the company's securities had a book value of $447,036 and a market value of $47.2 million.
As part of the deal, Lloyds TSB Group Pension Trust also will generate pretax income of £360 million from selling its share of the securities, which have a book value of £805 million.
The company has a tangible book value of $56 a share, of which $14 is cash and marketable securities.
Mr Weill's strike will put further pressure on all but the biggest independent securities firms to find partners.At first glance, the tab for Salomon looks modest at twice the book value of its assets, a common yardstick.
(That's the "book value" of the company).
Assets is the book value of assets (item 6).
INV = Book value of inventory divided by total assets.
BVEBVD (Book Value of Equity/Book value of Total Liabilities): This indicator measures leverage of the firms.
Leverage is measured as the book value of total debts divided by the book value of total assets.
MTB = Market-to-book equity ratio (market value of equity divided by the book value of equity).
These include firm size (book value of assets), Market-to-Book ratio (MtoB), free cash flow, and leverage.
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