Simple Book Value Alone Gives Us A Valuation Of $.0386/S. Def. of Book Value: 1. It is the total value of the company's assets that shareholders would theoretically receive if a company were liquidated. So $8,000,000(assets) รท 207,424,156(O/S) = $.0386/S. Liabilities, of course, have to be subtracted out lowering the BV. BV is just a ballpark valuation.