West Pharmaceutical Services (West Pharmaceutical Services) Net Cash per Share : $-4.31 (As of Mar. 2024)

West Pharmaceutical Services Net Cash per Share Chart

West Pharmaceutical Services Annual Data
	Trend	Dec14	Dec15	Dec16	Dec17	Dec18	Dec19	Dec20	Dec21	Dec22	Dec23
Net Cash per Share		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-4.44	-4.38	-2.91	-0.51	-1.29

West Pharmaceutical Services Quarterly Data
	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23	Mar24
Net Cash per Share	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-0.82	-1.71	0.16	-1.29	-4.31

Competitive Comparison of West Pharmaceutical Services's Net Cash per Share

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, West Pharmaceutical Services'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.

West Pharmaceutical Services's Price-to-Net-Cash Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

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

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

West Pharmaceutical Services 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.

West Pharmaceutical Services's Net Cash per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

West Pharmaceutical Services's Net Cash per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 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.

West Pharmaceutical Services  (NYSE:WST) 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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