Span-America Medical Systems (Span-America Medical Systems) Net Cash per Share : $0.74 (As of Mar. 2017)

Span-America Medical Systems Net Cash per Share Chart

Span-America Medical Systems Annual Data
	Trend	Sep07	Sep08	Sep09	Sep10	Sep11	Sep12	Sep13	Sep14	Sep15	Sep16
Net Cash per Share		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-1.68	-0.29	0.58	-2.43	-1.02

Span-America Medical Systems Quarterly Data
	Jun12	Sep12	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13	Dec13	Mar14	Jun14	Sep14	Dec14	Mar15	Jun15	Sep15	Dec15	Mar16	Jun16	Sep16	Dec16	Mar17
Net Cash per Share	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-1.30	-0.89	-1.02	-0.58	0.74

Competitive Comparison of Span-America Medical Systems's Net Cash per Share

For the Medical Devices subindustry, Span-America Medical Systems'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.

Span-America Medical Systems's Price-to-Net-Cash Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Span-America Medical Systems's Price-to-Net-Cash distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Span-America Medical Systems's Price-to-Net-Cash falls into.

Span-America Medical Systems 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.

Span-America Medical Systems's Net Cash per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2016 is calculated as

Span-America Medical Systems's Net Cash per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2017 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.

Span-America Medical Systems  (NAS:SPAN) 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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