How do you calculate Book value per share?
Because financial data such as company balance sheets and income statements are readily available on the Internet and from various financial news outlets, you generally don’t have to perform your own accounting calculations to help you evaluate the investment potential of individual companies. However, the actual calculation for book value per share is reasonably easy to compute, so if you have the desire, you can make your own computations based on information that companies are required to report. Find out what the company’s tangible and intangible assets are. In the simplest terms, assets are what a company owns. Specifically, assets are all those items that a company can convert to cash or otherwise use to make payments. Tangible assets include items that can be physically touched, such as buildings, inventory or equipment. Intangible assets are nonphysical items such as copyrights, trademarks or patents. Because it would be almost impossible for you to calculate a company’s asset
