Empire Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the food retail and related real estate businesses in Canada. It operates through two segments, Food Retailing, and Investments and Other Operations. The company owns, affiliates, and franchises approximately 1,600 retail stores under various retail banners, including Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Farm Boy, Longo's, and Lawtons Drugs; and approximately 350 retail fuel locations, as well as operates grocery e-commerce stores under the banners, such as Voilà, Grocery Gateway, IGA.net, and ThriftyFoods.com. It also owns interest in the Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust, an open-ended real estate investment trust to own, operate, and develop a portfolio of grocery and pharmacy-anchored shopping centers, freestanding stores, and mixed-use developments; and various equity accounted interests in Genstar partnerships that develop residential real estate properties in Ontario, Western Canada, and the United States. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Stellarton, Canada.
P/B ratio for Empire Company Limited (EMP-A.TO)
P/B ratio as of 2023: 1.49
According to Empire Company Limited's latest financial reports and stock price the company's current price-to-sales ratio (TTM) is 1.49. At the end of 2022 the company had a P/B ratio of 1.81.
P/B ratio history for Empire Company Limited from 1995 to 2023
P/B ratio at the end of each year
| Year | P/B ratio |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.49 |
| 2022 | 1.81 |
| 2021 | 2.25 |
| 2020 | 2.38 |
| 2019 | 2.12 |
| 2018 | 2.02 |
| 2017 | 1.82 |
| 2016 | 1.57 |
| 2015 | 1.58 |
| 2014 | 1.35 |
| 2013 | 0.97 |
| 2012 | 1.25 |
| 2011 | 1.16 |
| 2010 | 1.13 |
| 2009 | 1.23 |
| 2008 | 1.22 |
| 2007 | 1.03 |
| 2006 | 1.31 |
| 2005 | 1.48 |
| 2004 | 1.42 |
| 2003 | 1.11 |
| 2002 | 1.10 |
| 2001 | 1.48 |
| 2000 | 1.00 |
| 1999 | 1.97 |
| 1998 | 1.35 |
| 1997 | 1.80 |
| 1996 | 1.22 |
| 1995 | 0.97 |