The price-to-book ratio, or P/B ratio, looks at a company from a different angle. It compares the stock’s market capitalization to the value of what the company owns after subtracting what it owes.

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 ...

Price to earnings (P/E) and price to sales (P/S) are the first ratios that come to an investor’s mind while narrowing down a list of undervalued stocks. However, the price-to-book ratio (P/B ratio), ...