Sonic (SONC) Net Cash per Share : $-21.93 (As of Aug. 2018)

Sonic Net Cash per Share Chart

Sonic Annual Data
	Trend	Aug09	Aug10	Aug11	Aug12	Aug13	Aug14	Aug15	Aug16	Aug17	Aug18
Net Cash per Share		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-10.27	-11.27	-13.98	-18.42	-21.93

Sonic Quarterly Data
	Nov13	Feb14	May14	Aug14	Nov14	Feb15	May15	Aug15	Nov15	Feb16	May16	Aug16	Nov16	Feb17	May17	Aug17	Nov17	Feb18	May18	Aug18
Net Cash per Share	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-18.42	-19.77	-19.91	-21.39	-21.93

Competitive Comparison of Sonic's Net Cash per Share

For the Restaurants subindustry, Sonic's Price-to-Net-Cash, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Net-Cash 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.

Sonic's Price-to-Net-Cash Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Sonic's Price-to-Net-Cash distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sonic's Price-to-Net-Cash falls into.

Sonic Net Cash per Share Calculation

In the calculation of a company's Net Cash per Share, assets other than cash and short term investments are considered to be worth nothing. But the company has to pay its debt and other liabilities in full. This is an extremely conservative way of valuation. Most companies have negative Net Cash per Share. But sometimes a company's price may be lower than its net-cash.

Sonic's Net Cash per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2018 is calculated as

Sonic's Net Cash per Share for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2018 is calculated as

* 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.

Sonic  (NAS:SONC) Net Cash per Share Explanation

Ben Graham invested in situations where the company's stock price was lower than its net-cash. He assigned some value to the company's other current asset. The value is called Net Current Asset Value (NCAV). One research study, covering the years 1970 through 1983 showed that portfolios picked at the beginning of each year, and held for one year, returned 29.4 percent, on average, over the 13-year period, compared to 11.5 percent for the S&P 500 Index. Other studies of Graham's strategy produced similar results.

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