Monday 20 February 2012

FM


price to sales ratio

stock's capitalization divided by its sales over the trailing 12 months. The value is the samewhether the calculation is done for the whole company or on a per-share basis. A low price tosales ratio (for example, below 1.0) is usually thought to be a better investment since theinvestor is paying less for each unit of sales. However, sales don't reveal the whole picture, since the company might be unprofitable. Because of the limitationsprice to sales ratio are usually used only for unprofitable companies, since such companies don't have aprice/earnings ratio (P/E ratio).

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