Toyota - Price To Book Value

Toyota is one of the world's largest automobile manufacturers by production. At the end of 2012, Toyota had a market value of USD 178 bil, only 10% below its all time high of USD 204 bil seen at the end of 2006.

Toyota share has been trading at around 14-16x in terms of EV to EBITDA in the last years and 16x as of the end of 2012 in terms of price to earnings. As the Company's ROE dropped to below 10%, the Company traded at 1.3x multiple of its book value at the end of 2012, well below more than 2.0x seen in 2005-2006.