Universal Corporation
S&P 600
$45.18
-0.33%
Delayed · cached 15 min
Peer comparison
| Company | Price↕ | Market Cap↕ | P/E↕ | P/B↕ | ROE %↕ | ROCE %↕ | Div yield %↕ | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Morris International | $ 191.06 | $297.79B | 26.24 | -34.69 | -132.21 | 34.76 | 3.10 | — |
| Altria | $ 68.98 | $115.18B | 14.52 | -43.17 | -260.38 | 40.87 | 6.16 | — |
| Universal Corporation | $ 45.18 | $1.12B | 59.45 | 0.81 | 2.35 | 6.82 | 7.26 | Above FV |
Price, market cap, P/E, P/B and dividend yield reflect the live quote (delayed, cached 15 min); ROE/ROCE from reported financials. The highlighted row is the current company. Click a column header to sort. Educational data only.
How to read the peer comparison
This table places the company beside others in the same industry on a few common measures. Comparison adds context that a single company's numbers cannot give on their own.
- Valuation multiples like P/E and P/B are most meaningful within the same industry, because different industries naturally trade at different levels. Comparing a company only to its peers is more useful than to the whole market.
- Return measures (ROE, ROCE) show how efficiently each company turns capital into profit. A company well ahead of or behind its peers here is worth understanding.
- No single column decides anything. A beginner reads the row across — valuation, returns, and size together — and treats the highlighted current company as one data point among its peers.
- Use the sortable headers to rank peers on any measure, but remember that "cheaper" or "higher" on one metric is a starting question, not an answer.
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