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, Southcoast Financial's share price is $14.02.
Southcoast Financial's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2016 was $2.58. Hence, Southcoast Financial's PS Ratio for today is 5.44.
The historical rank and industry rank for Southcoast Financial's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
SOCB's PS Ratio is not ranked *
in the Banks industry.
Industry Median: 2.4 * Ranked among companies with meaningful PS Ratio only.
The historical data trend for Southcoast Financial'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 Southcoast Financial's PS Ratio
For the Banks - Regional subindustry, Southcoast Financial'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.
Southcoast Financial's PS Ratio Distribution in the Banks Industry
For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Southcoast Financial's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Southcoast Financial's PS Ratio falls into.
Southcoast Financial 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.
Southcoast Financial's Share Price of today is $14.02. Southcoast Financial's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $2.58.
* 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:
Southcoast Financial (NAS:SOCB) 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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Southcoast Financial (Southcoast Financial) Business Description
Southcoast Financial Corp is a South Carolina corporation organized in 1999 under the laws of South Carolina. It is a holding company for Southcoast Community Bank or the Bank. The Bank offers a full array of commercial banking services. Deposit services include business and personal checking accounts, NOW accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, various term certificates of deposit, IRA accounts, and other deposit services. Bank's deposits are attracted from individuals and small businesses. The Bank does not offer trust services. The Bank operates from its offices in Mt. Pleasant, Charleston, Moncks Corner, Johns Island, Summerville, Goose Creek and North Charleston, South Carolina. The Bank offers secured and unsecured, short-to-intermediate term loans, with floating and fixed interest rates for commercial, consumer and residential purposes. Consumer loans include, among others: car loans, home equity improvement loans, personal expenditure loans, education loans, overdraft lines of credit, and the like. The Bank makes commercial loans to small and middle market businesses.Commercial loans may be unsecured if loans are of short duration and made to a customer with demonstrated ability to pay, but often loans are secured. Collateral for commercial loans may be listed securities, equipment, inventory, accounts receivable or other business assets but would usually be local real estate. The Bank usually makes commercial loans to businesses to provide working capital, expand physical assets or acquire assets. The Bank also makes loans guaranteed by the U. S. Small Business Administration. The Bank makes loans secured by real estate mortgages that are usually for the acquisition, improvement or construction and development of residential and other properties. Residential real estate loans consist mainly of first and second mortgage loans on single family homes, with some mortgage loans on multifamily homes. Real estate construction loans typically consist of financing for the construction of 1-4 family dwellings and some non-farm, non-residential real estate. Other services the Bank offers include residential mortgage loan origination services, safe deposit boxes, business courier service, night depository service, telephone banking, MasterCard brand credit cards, tax deposits, and 24-hour automated teller machines. The bank holding companies and banks are regulated under federal and state law.
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