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Performant Financial (Performant Financial) Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio : 0.99 (As of May. 24, 2024)


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What is Performant Financial Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio?

As of today (2024-05-24), Performant Financial's current share price is $3.09. Performant Financial's Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $3.13. Performant Financial's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio for today is 0.99.

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

PFMT' s Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.19   Med: 0.72   Max: 1.3
Current: 0.98

During the past years, Performant Financial's highest Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio was 1.30. The lowest was 0.19. And the median was 0.72.

PFMT's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio is ranked worse than
53.39% of 693 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 0.88 vs PFMT: 0.98

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 PS Ratio. The Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted revenue per share of a company over the past 10 years.

Performant Financial's adjusted revenue per share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $0.355. Add all the adjusted revenue per share for the past 10 years together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share, which is $3.13 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar. 2024.

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Performant Financial Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Performant Financial's Cyclically Adjusted PS 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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Performant Financial Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Chart

Performant Financial Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 0.23 0.64 1.00 0.98

Performant Financial Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Cyclically Adjusted PS 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 0.95 0.78 0.68 0.98 0.94

Competitive Comparison of Performant Financial's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Performant Financial's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted PS 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.


Performant Financial's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Performant Financial's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Performant Financial's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio falls into.



Performant Financial Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Calculation

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

Performant Financial's Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share
=3.09/3.13
=0.99

* 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.

Performant Financial's Cyclically Adjusted Revenue per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

For example, Performant Financial's adjusted Revenue per Share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was:

Adj_RevenuePerShare=Revenue per Share/CPI of Mar. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Mar. 2024)
=0.355/131.7762*131.7762
=0.355

Current CPI (Mar. 2024) = 131.7762.

Performant Financial Quarterly Data

Revenue per Share CPI Adj_RevenuePerShare
201406 1.156 100.560 1.515
201409 0.809 100.428 1.062
201412 0.793 99.070 1.055
201503 0.781 99.621 1.033
201506 0.826 100.684 1.081
201509 0.779 100.392 1.023
201512 0.830 99.792 1.096
201603 0.763 100.470 1.001
201606 0.754 101.688 0.977
201609 0.621 101.861 0.803
201612 0.673 101.863 0.871
201703 0.658 102.862 0.843
201706 0.710 103.349 0.905
201709 0.585 104.136 0.740
201712 0.653 104.011 0.827
201803 1.067 105.290 1.335
201806 0.607 106.317 0.752
201809 0.528 106.507 0.653
201812 0.750 105.998 0.932
201903 0.657 107.251 0.807
201906 0.671 108.070 0.818
201909 0.669 108.329 0.814
201912 0.815 108.420 0.991
202003 0.851 108.902 1.030
202006 0.623 108.767 0.755
202009 0.662 109.815 0.794
202012 0.731 109.897 0.877
202103 0.573 111.754 0.676
202106 0.592 114.631 0.681
202109 0.460 115.734 0.524
202112 0.456 117.630 0.511
202203 0.388 121.301 0.422
202206 0.349 125.017 0.368
202209 0.367 125.227 0.386
202212 0.394 125.222 0.415
202303 0.341 127.348 0.353
202306 0.336 128.729 0.344
202309 0.392 129.860 0.398
202312 0.423 129.419 0.431
202403 0.355 131.776 0.355

Add all the adjusted revenue per share together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted Revenue 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.


Performant Financial  (NAS:PFMT) Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PS Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted PS Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of revenue 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 PS Ratio should give similar results to regular PS Ratio.


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Performant Financial (Performant Financial) Business Description

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Address
333 North Canyons Parkway, Livermore, CA, USA, 94551
Performant Financial Corp provides technology-enabled recovery and related analytics services in the United States. The company provides its services on an outsourced basis where it handles many or all aspects of its clients' recovery processes. It uses technology-enabled services platform to provide recovery and analytics services in a range of markets for the identification and recovery of student loans, improper healthcare payments and delinquent state tax and federal treasury receivables. The services are primarily offered across a broad range of government and private clients in several markets. The revenue generated here is generally on success-based as it earns fees based on a percentage of the aggregate amount of funds that it enables the clients to recover.
Executives
Prescott Group Capital Management, L.l.c. 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH UTICA, SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6429
Rohit Ramchandani officer: Chief Financial Officer 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Ecmc Group, Inc. 10 percent owner 1 IMATION PLACE, BLDG 2, SUITE 392A, OAKDALE MN 55128
Pcp Managers Gp, Llc 10 percent owner FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3610, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Parthenon Dcs Holdings, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Eric Yanagi director 400 OYSTER POINT BOULEVARD, SUITE 526, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CA 94080
Pcp Managers, L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3610, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcap Ii, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcap Partners Ii, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Parthenon Investors Ii. L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, 400 EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
James Lacamp director 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Lp 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH IRICA SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 741046529
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Master Fund Gp 10 percent owner 1924 S UTICA SUITE # 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6529
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Ii Lp 10 percent owner 1924 S UTICA SUITE # 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6529
Phil Frohlich 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH IRICA SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 741046529