optimus21 Mar 2015 08:09
From hl website:
But the good times can't go on rolling forever and Persimmon's current valuation offers little margin of safety. The price to book ratio (P/B) is a good way of valuing house builders because it tells you how much investors are being asked to pay for the land and property a company owns. The higher the P/B the more expensively valued that company is on the basis of its assets. Persimmon currently trades on P/B of 2.2x, which is around a 30% premium to the sector, and around a 70% premium to its long run average. While Persimmon is in a real sweet spot at the moment, we would remind investors that this remains a highly cyclical industry which is notoriously difficult to predict.