The PS Ratio, or Price-to-Sales ratio, or Price/Sales, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Revenue per Share. As of today, Metalico's share price is €0.50.
Metalico's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015 was €5.43. Hence, Metalico's PS Ratio for today is 0.09.
Warning Sign:
Metalico Inc stock P/S Ratio (=0.09) is close to 1-year high of 0.09
The historical rank and industry rank for Metalico's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:MT5'
s PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.03 Med: 0.37 Max: 1.24
Current: 0.09
During the past 13 years, Metalico's highest PS Ratio was 1.24. The lowest was 0.03. And the median was 0.37.
FRA:MT5's PS Ratio is not ranked
in the Industrial Products industry.
Industry Median: 1.69
vs FRA:MT5: 0.09
Metalico Inc revenue has been in decline over the past 3 years.
During the past 12 months, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate of Metalico was -33.00% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was -12.30% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 3.10% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 5.10% per year.
During the past 13 years, Metalico's highest 3-Year average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 56.90% per year. The lowest was -25.50% per year. And the median was 8.05% per year.
Back to Basics: PS Ratio
Metalico PS Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Metalico's 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.
For the Metal Fabrication subindustry, Metalico's PS Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 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.
Metalico's PS Ratio Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Metalico's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Metalico's PS Ratio falls into.
Metalico PS Ratio Calculation
The PS Ratio, or Price-to-Sales ratio, or Price/Sales, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Revenue per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks and it was first used by Ken Fisher.
Metalico's Share Price of today is €0.50. Metalico's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €5.43.
* 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.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
The PS Ratio is an excellent valuation indicator if you want to compare a stock with its historical valuation or with the stocks in the same industry. The PS Ratio works especially well when you want to compare the stock's current valuation with its historical valuation. The PS Ratio is a great valuation tool for evaluating cyclical businesses where the PE Ratio works poorly. It works the best when comparing the current valuation with the historical valuation because over time, a company's profit margin tends to revert to the mean.
When the PS Ratio is applied to the whole stock market, it can be used to evaluate the current market valuation and projected returns. In this case, the price is the total market cap of all stocks that are traded, and sales are the GDP of the country. This is how Warren Buffett estimates the broad market valuation and project future returns.
The PS Ratio does not tell you how cheap or expensive the stock is. It cannot be used to compare companies in different industries. It works better for companies within the same industry because these companies tend to have similar capital structures and profit margins. It works the best when comparing a company with itself in the past.
Metalico PS Ratio Related Terms
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Metalico Inc was originally organized as a Delaware corporation in August 1997. The Company along with its subsidiaries operates in two distinct business segments; scrap metal recycling and lead metal product fabricating. The Companys operating facilities include thirty-one scrap metal recycling facilities, including a combined aluminum de-oxidizing plant and four lead product manufacturing and fabricating plants. In the Scrap Metal Recycling segment, its operations mainly involves the collection and processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. It collects industrial and obsolete scrap metal, process it into reusable forms and supply the recycled metals to its consumers that include electric arc furnace mills, integrated steel mills, foundries, secondary smelters, aluminum recyclers and metal brokers. The Company acquires unprocessed scrap metals mainly in its local and regional markets and sells to consumers nationally and in Canada as well as to exporters and international brokers. Some of the metal commodities it recycles include steel, copper, aluminum, stainless steel, molybdenum, tantalum, platinum, lead and many others. In Lead Fabricating segment, through four physical operations located in three states, the Company consumes approximately 40 to 45 million pounds of lead metal per year that are utilized in more than one hundred different base products. Its products are sold nationally into diverse industries such as roofing, plumbing, radiation shielding for pharmaceutical and power generation, electronic solders, ammunition, automotive, Department of Defense contractors, and others. The Company sells its lead fabrications nationally. Products are sold to distributors, wholesalers, the plumbing and building trades, equipment manufacturers and other consumers. Its lead fabrication facilities compete against two fabricators of similar, but limited products based in the Southwest who distribute nationally and several smaller regional producers of similar products. To a lesser extent, it also competes against products imported from South America, Canada, Europe and Asia. The Company is subject to comprehensive and frequently changing Federal, state and local laws and regulations.
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