In calculating the Net Current Asset Value (NCAV), Benjamin Graham means a company's current assets (such as cash, marketable securities, and inventories) minus its total liabilities (including preferred stock, minority interest, and long-term debt).
VirtualScopics's net current asset value per share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 was $0.74.
The historical rank and industry rank for VirtualScopics's Net Current Asset Value or its related term are showing as below:
VSCP's Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value is not ranked *
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry.
Industry Median: 5.04 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value only.
VirtualScopics Net Current Asset Value Historical Data
The historical data trend for VirtualScopics's Net Current Asset Value 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 VirtualScopics's Net Current Asset Value
For the Medical Devices subindustry, VirtualScopics's Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value 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.
VirtualScopics's Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry
For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, VirtualScopics's Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where VirtualScopics's Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value falls into.
VirtualScopics Net Current Asset Value Calculation
VirtualScopics's Net Current Asset Value (NCAV) per share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 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.
VirtualScopics (NAS:VSCP) Net Current Asset Value Explanation
Benjamin Graham first discussed net current asset value (NCAV) in the 1934 edition of "Security Analysis", which he coauthored with David Dodd. In the book, (net) current asset value is defined as:" current assets alone, minus all liabilities and claims ahead of the issue."
The common definition of NCAV is: NCAV = current assets – [total liabilities + minority interest + preferred stock]
Net current assets exclude not only the intangible assets but also the fixed and miscellaneous assets. In addition, Graham believed that preferred stock belongs on the liability side of the balance sheet, not as part of capital and surplus. In "Security Analysis", preferred stock is dubbed "an imperfect creditorship position" that is best placed on the balance sheet alongside funded debt.
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 Grahams strategy produced similar results.
Benjamin Graham looked for companies whose market values were less than two-thirds of their Net-Net Working Capital. They are collected under our Net-Net screener.
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VirtualScopics (VirtualScopics) Business Description
VirtualScopics Inc. is a provider of quantitative imaging for clinical trials serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The Company has developed a software platform for analysis and modeling of both structural and functional medical images. This platform provides information about the biological activity of drugs and devices in clinical trial patients. VirtualScopics is an imaging core lab providing central reads and quantitative imaging solutions for drug and medical device clinical trials for the areas of oncology, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, neurology, and cardiovascular studies utilizing MRI, PET, CT, Ultrasound, and X-ray imaging modalities. The Company's image-based measurement and visualization tools enable automated and reproducible measurement of minute changes that occur in anatomic structures in musculoskeletal, oncological, cardiological and neurological diseases. The Company's image analysis provides a degree of accuracy and reproducibility that cannot be duplicated by manual techniques. The Company's quantitative imaging replaces subjective evaluation. It has developed a suite of patented semi-automated tools for the identification and measurement of carotid plaques. Evaluating diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), epilepsy, and Alzheimer's requires the identification and measurement of neurological structures and lesions. The Company's competition is largely comprised of a limited number of university research centers that are working on developing the next generation of image analysis tools. The Company's main customers are Novartis, Merck Serono and Amgen. The Company's main competitors are clinical research organizations (CROs) providing clinical trial services to pharmaceutical companies. Healthcare in the United States is heavily regulated by the federal government, and by state and local governments.
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