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, Rockwood Holdings's share price is €65.53.
Rockwood Holdings's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 was €14.28. Hence, Rockwood Holdings's PS Ratio for today is 4.59.
The historical rank and industry rank for Rockwood Holdings's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:R6H'
s PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.11 Med: 0.88 Max: 4.43
Current: 4.11
During the past 12 years, Rockwood Holdings's highest PS Ratio was 4.43. The lowest was 0.11. And the median was 0.88.
FRA:R6H's PS Ratio is not ranked
in the Chemicals industry.
Industry Median: 1.46
vs FRA:R6H: 4.11
Rockwood Holdings Inc revenue has been in decline for the last 5 years.
During the past 12 months, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate of Rockwood Holdings was 11.90% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was -24.20% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was -21.10% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was -8.60% per year.
During the past 12 years, Rockwood Holdings's highest 3-Year average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 11.50% per year. The lowest was -24.20% per year. And the median was 0.40% per year.
Back to Basics: PS Ratio
Rockwood Holdings PS Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Rockwood Holdings'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.
Competitive Comparison of Rockwood Holdings's PS Ratio
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Rockwood Holdings'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.
Rockwood Holdings's PS Ratio Distribution in the Chemicals Industry
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Rockwood Holdings's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Rockwood Holdings's PS Ratio falls into.
Rockwood Holdings 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.
Rockwood Holdings's Share Price of today is €65.53. Rockwood Holdings's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €14.28.
* 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.
Rockwood Holdings PS Ratio Related Terms
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Rockwood Holdings Inc was incorporated in Delaware in September 2000. It is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of value-added specialty chemicals and materials used for industrial and commercial purposes. The Company operates through two business segments: Lithium and Surface Treatment. The Lithium segment operates under the Rockwood Lithium brand name and develops lithium chemicals for industries and end markets. It develops and manufactures basic lithium compounds, including lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, lithium chloride, and value-added lithium specialties and reagents, including butyllithium and lithium aluminum hydride. It operates lithium business along the following five business divisions reflecting its core end-markets: Lithium Salts; Special Salts; Butyllithium/Lithium Metal; Battery Products and Lithium Specialties. Lithium segment obtains lithium brine which it uses to produce lithium products through evaporation in the Salar de Atacama, Chile and Silver Peak, Nevada. Lithium's customers include Bayer CropScience (a division of Bayer AG), Syngenta AG, Umicore S.A., Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. and Royal DSM N.V. Surface Treatment segment operates under the Chemetall brand name and develops and manufactures metal surface treatment products and services for industries and end market. Surface Treatment's products are used for a variety of applications and serve the automotive, aerospace and general industrial markets, including steel and metal-working industries. The customers include ArcelorMittal, Daimler AG, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) N.V., Ford, Renault-Nissan and Volkswagen AG. The competitors in this segment includes: Dow Corning Corporation, Catalise Industria e Comercio de Metals Ltda and Nachmann S.r.I. The Company's operations are subject to regulation by the FDA with respect to certain products produced, marketed and sold by its Lithium segment, which includes pharmaceutical intermediates.
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