The historical rank and industry rank for Valassis Communications's Net Cash per Share or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:VAA's Price-to-Net-Cash is not ranked *
in the Media - Diversified industry.
Industry Median: 5.81 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Net-Cash only.
Valassis Communications Net Cash per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Valassis Communications's Net Cash per Share 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.
Competitive Comparison of Valassis Communications's Net Cash per Share
For the Advertising Agencies subindustry, Valassis Communications'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.
Valassis Communications's Price-to-Net-Cash Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry
For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Valassis Communications's Price-to-Net-Cash distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Valassis Communications's Price-to-Net-Cash falls into.
Valassis Communications 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.
Valassis Communications's Net Cash per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2012 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.
Valassis Communications (FRA:VAA) 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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Valassis Communications Net Cash per Share Related Terms
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Valassis Communications Inc is a Delaware Corporation. The Company is an intelligent media delivery, providing over 15,000 advertisers proven and innovative media solutions to influence consumers wherever they plan, shop, buy and share. By integrating online and offline data combined with powerful insights, Valassis precisely targets its clients' valuable shoppers, offering unparalleled reach and scale. It operates its business in three reportable segments: Shared Mail - offer the only national shared mail distribution network in the industry with products that have the ability to reach 9 out of 10 U.S. households through shared mail distribution. Neighborhood Targeted - Products that are targeted to specific newspaper zones or neighborhoods based on geographic and demographic characteristics. The Company specializes in producing full-service promotions for clients allowing orders to be placed on a national, regional or local basis. Free-standing Inserts - Four-color booklets that contain promotions, mainly coupons, from multiple advertisers (cooperative), which it publish and distribute to approximately 60 million households through newspapers and shared mail. Cooperative Free-standing Inserts ('FSI') are four-color booklets containing promotions, primarily coupons, from multiple clients, printed by the Company at its own facilities and distributed through newspapers and shared mail. Paper is the main raw material essential to its business. The extent and nature of the competition are, in large part, determined by location and demographics of the markets targeted by a particular advertiser and the number of media alternatives in those markets.
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