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BCPC (Balchem) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio : 5.73 (As of Jul. 09, 2025)


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What is Balchem Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio?

As of today (2025-07-09), Balchem's current share price is $162.94. Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $28.42. Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is 5.73.

The historical rank and industry rank for Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

BCPC' s Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.68   Med: 7.16   Max: 9.98
Current: 5.73

During the past years, Balchem's highest Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio was 9.98. The lowest was 4.68. And the median was 7.16.

BCPC's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio is ranked worse than
86.55% of 1227 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 1.62 vs BCPC: 5.73

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio. The Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted book value per share of a company over the past 10 years.

Balchem's adjusted book value per share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $37.063. Add all the adjusted book value per share for the past 10 years together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share, which is $28.42 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar. 2025.

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Balchem Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Balchem Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Chart

Balchem Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.99 8.66 5.45 5.96 5.91

Balchem Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.99 5.81 6.50 5.91 5.84

Competitive Comparison of Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio falls into.


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Balchem Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio takes the Book Value per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/B calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPB Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio.

Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share
=162.94/28.42
=5.73

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

For example, Balchem's adjusted Book Value per Share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was:

Adj_Book=Book Value per Share/CPI of Mar. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Mar. 2025)
=37.063/134.9266*134.9266
=37.063

Current CPI (Mar. 2025) = 134.9266.

Balchem Quarterly Data

Book Value per Share CPI Adj_Book
201506 13.934 100.684 18.673
201509 14.515 100.392 19.508
201512 14.708 99.792 19.886
201603 15.209 100.470 20.425
201606 15.697 101.688 20.828
201609 16.281 101.861 21.566
201612 16.406 101.863 21.731
201703 17.018 102.862 22.323
201706 17.636 103.349 23.025
201709 18.312 104.136 23.727
201712 19.265 104.011 24.991
201803 19.934 105.290 25.545
201806 20.591 106.317 26.132
201809 21.247 106.507 26.916
201812 21.442 105.998 27.294
201903 21.977 107.251 27.648
201906 22.635 108.070 28.260
201909 22.804 108.329 28.403
201912 23.094 108.420 28.740
202003 23.711 108.902 29.377
202006 24.505 108.767 30.399
202009 25.336 109.815 31.130
202012 25.584 109.897 31.411
202103 26.177 111.754 31.605
202106 26.837 114.631 31.588
202109 27.455 115.734 32.008
202112 27.163 117.630 31.157
202203 27.204 121.301 30.260
202206 28.062 125.017 30.286
202209 27.880 125.227 30.040
202212 29.182 125.222 31.444
202303 30.206 127.348 32.004
202306 31.232 128.729 32.736
202309 31.801 129.860 33.042
202312 32.677 129.419 34.068
202403 33.272 131.776 34.067
202406 34.295 132.554 34.909
202409 36.213 133.029 36.730
202412 35.353 133.157 35.823
202503 37.063 134.927 37.063

Add all the adjusted book value per share together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


Balchem  (NAS:BCPC) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PB Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of book value during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio should give similar results to regular PB Ratio.


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Balchem Business Description

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Address
5 Paragon Drive, Montvale, NJ, USA, 07645
Balchem Corp is engaged in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for various industries. The company's reportable segments are; Human Nutrition and Health, which generates maximum revenue, and provides human-grade choline nutrients and mineral amino acid chelated products through this segment for nutrition and health applications; Animal Nutrition and Health, which provides nutritional products derived from its microencapsulation and chelation technologies in addition to the essential nutrient choline chloride; and the Specialty Products segment includes re-packaging and distributing several performance gases and chemicals. Geographically, the company derives its key revenue from the United States and the rest from foreign countries.
Executives
Van Gunsteren Job Leonard officer: Vice President 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
William A. Backus officer: Chief Accounting Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Michael Robert Sestrick officer: Chief Technology Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
David B Fischer director 425 WINTER ROAD, DELAWARE OH 43015
Michael Bent Tignor officer: Chief Human Resources Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Matthew David Wineinger director 3605 GRAND VIEW COURT, ST CHARLES IL 60175
Theodore L Harris director, officer: President and CEO 5200 BLAZER PARKWAY, DUBLIN OH 43017
Olivier Rigaud director CORBION NV, PIET HEINKADE 127, AMSTERDAM P7 1019 GM
Monica Vicente director C/O FRESH DEL MONTE PRODUCE INC., P.O. BOX 149222, CORAL GABLES FL 33114
Frederic Boned officer: SVP/GM, Human Nutri. & Health 5 PARAGON DRIVE, MONTVALE NJ 07645
Hatsuki Miyata officer: General Counsel and Secretary 5 PARAGON DRIVE, MONTVALE NJ 07645
Jonathan Harrison Griffin officer: Vice President 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Martin Luther Reid officer: Chief Supply Chain Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Kathleen B Fish director ONE PROCTER & GAMBLE PLAZA, CINCINNATI OH 45202
James C Hyde officer: Sr. Vice President 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958