Ellington Financial Inc. (EFC)
Market price: $11.74
2 valuation methods
- P / B: $11.13 to $19.78 (midpoint $14.29)
- P / E: $17.98 to $48.99 (midpoint $32.11)
How each method works
P / B: $11.13 to $19.78 (midpoint $14.29)
Values the stock at a peer multiple of its book (net asset) value — most meaningful for asset-heavy and financial companies whose balance sheet drives value.
- How it’s calculated
- We take book value per share (total assets minus total liabilities, from the latest balance sheet, divided by shares outstanding) and multiply it by the range of price-to-book multiples the peer group trades at.
- Why it fits this industry
- Property companies are valued on what their assets are worth; price-to-book asks how the market prices the portfolio relative to its carrying value.
- Reading this bar
- The bar is the per-share value range this method implies: a conservative low, a central estimate, and an optimistic high. If the current price sits below the bar, the market is pricing the shares below what this method's inputs suggest; if it sits above, the market is pricing them higher. No single bar is a verdict — methods disagree for good reasons, so read the whole field together. Asset-light companies (brands, software) legitimately trade far above book value, so for them a P/B bar well below the price is usually structure, not signal.
P / B = (0.82/1.06/1.46)× book_value_per_share 13.54 ≈ 11.13/14.29/19.78 (per_share)
P / E: $17.98 to $48.99 (midpoint $32.11)
Values the stock at a peer multiple of its earnings per share — the most familiar gauge for steadily profitable companies.
- How it’s calculated
- We take the company's net earnings per share over the last twelve months and multiply them by the range of price-to-earnings (P/E) multiples its peers trade at.
- Why it fits this industry
- For steadily profitable companies, earnings are the bottom line an owner is entitled to — P/E is the most familiar way to ask what the market pays for a dollar of profit.
- Reading this bar
- The bar is the per-share value range this method implies: a conservative low, a central estimate, and an optimistic high. If the current price sits below the bar, the market is pricing the shares below what this method's inputs suggest; if it sits above, the market is pricing them higher. No single bar is a verdict — methods disagree for good reasons, so read the whole field together. One unusually strong or weak year can swing a P/E — the inputs panel shows the earnings the bar is built on.
P / E = (11.94/21.33/32.54)× eps 1.51 ≈ 17.98/32.11/48.99 (per_share)
5 methods not shown
- EV / EBITDA: ebitda unavailable — cannot form EV / EBITDA
- EV / Revenue: net debt unavailable — cannot bridge enterprise value to equity
- EV / Gross Profit: gross profit is not a valuation metric for this sector (financial / rental revenue has no cost-of-goods concept) — EV/Gross-Profit not applied
- DCF (FCFF): DCF input(s) unavailable (da, capex, delta_nwc, revenue_cagr) — cannot build FCFF
- Price / FFO: ffo_per_share unavailable — cannot form Price / FFO
Limited data — fewer than three valuation methods could be formed for this company; showing every method we can stand behind.