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, Kansas City Southern's share price is $293.59.
Kansas City Southern's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2021 was $31.69. Hence, Kansas City Southern's PS Ratio for today is 9.27.
The historical rank and industry rank for Kansas City Southern's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
KSU'
s PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.6 Med: 4.38 Max: 11.02
Current: 9.27
During the past 13 years, Kansas City Southern's highest PS Ratio was 11.02. The lowest was 2.60. And the median was 4.38.
KSU's PS Ratio is not ranked
in the Transportation industry.
Industry Median: 0.96
vs KSU: 9.27
Kansas City Southern has shown predictable revenue and earnings growth.
During the past 12 months, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate of Kansas City Southern was 13.90% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 3.70% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 6.00% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 4.90% per year.
During the past 13 years, Kansas City Southern's highest 3-Year average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 24.30% per year. The lowest was -24.70% per year. And the median was 3.20% per year.
Back to Basics: PS Ratio
Kansas City Southern PS Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Kansas City Southern'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 Kansas City Southern's PS Ratio
For the Railroads subindustry, Kansas City Southern'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.
Kansas City Southern's PS Ratio Distribution in the Transportation Industry
For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Kansas City Southern's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Kansas City Southern's PS Ratio falls into.
Kansas City Southern 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.
Kansas City Southern's Share Price of today is $293.59. Kansas City Southern's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2021 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $31.69.
* 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:
Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) PS Ratio Explanation
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.
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Kansas City Southern (Kansas City Southern) Business Description
Kansas City Southern, the smallest Class I railroad, derives about half of its $2.6 billion revenue on 3,400 miles of track in the Central and Southern United States. Remaining sales are produced by operating concessions on 3,300 miles of rail in Mexico and 47 miles of track adjacent to the Panama Canal. KCS' freight includes industrial and forest products (around 21% of total revenue), chemicals and petroleum (26%), agriculture and minerals (18%), intermodal (13%), energy (9%), and autos (9%); other revenue stems from switching, demurrage, and the like.
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