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Symmetry Surgical (FRA:RZV) 3-Year Book Growth Rate : -2.50% (As of Sep. 2014)


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What is Symmetry Surgical 3-Year Book Growth Rate?

Symmetry Surgical's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was €5.84.

During the past 12 months, Symmetry Surgical's average Book Value per Share Growth Rate was -2.60% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Book Value per Share Growth Rate was -2.50% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Book Value per Share Growth Rate was -0.30% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Book Value per Share Growth Rate was -0.80% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average Book Value per Share growth rate.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value per Share Growth Rate of Symmetry Surgical was 49.80% per year. The lowest was 0.00% per year. And the median was 2.70% per year.


Competitive Comparison of Symmetry Surgical's 3-Year Book Growth Rate

For the Medical Devices subindustry, Symmetry Surgical's 3-Year Book Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year Book Growth Rate 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.


Symmetry Surgical's 3-Year Book Growth Rate Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Symmetry Surgical's 3-Year Book Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

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Symmetry Surgical 3-Year Book Growth Rate Calculation

This is the 3-year average growth rate of Book Value per Share. The growth rate is calculated using exponential compounding based on the latest four year annual data.

Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average Book Value per Share growth rate.


Symmetry Surgical  (FRA:RZV) 3-Year Book Growth Rate Explanation

Book Value per Share is the ratio of equity available to common shareholders divided by the shares outstanding. Book value per share effectively indicates a firm's net asset value on a per-share basis. It can be used by investors to gauge whether a stock price is undervalued by comparing it to the firm's market value per share. Theoretically, it is what the shareholders will receive if the company is liquidated.


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Symmetry Surgical (FRA:RZV) Business Description

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Symmetry Medical, Inc., is a Delaware corporation incorporated on July 25, 1996. It is a source of medical device products. The Company provides medical device solutions, including surgical instruments, orthopedic implants, and sterilization cases and trays. The Company designs, develops and offers worldwide production and supply chain capabilities for these products to customers in the orthopedic industry and other medical device markets. It also manufactures specialized non-healthcare products, mainly in the aerospace industry. It operates in two reportable segments namely Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Solutions and Symmetry Surgical. Its main products produced in the OEM Solutions segment include: implants, including forged, cast and machined products for the global orthopedic device market; instruments used in the placement and removal of orthopedic implants and in other surgical procedures; cases, including plastic, metal and hybrid cases used to organize, secure and transport medical devices for orthopedic, endoscopy, dental and other surgical procedures; and other specialized products for the aerospace market. Symmetry Surgical is its new business segment. It arose from the integration of the Codman and Olsen Medical lines of surgical instruments with its Company's already existing hospital direct business, Specialty Surgical Instrumentation (SSI). Symmetry Surgical, which is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee offers reusable stainless steel and titanium surgical hand-held instruments and retractor systems, sterile disposable surgical products, and sterilization containers. These products are used in the surgical specialties of spine, general/obstetrics/gynecology, microsurgery/neurosurgery, orthopedics, and laparoscopy, cardiovascular, thoracic and general surgery in the hospital setting as well as surgery centers and in select physician offices. The Company's OEM Solutions segment has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Malaysia. The Company's subject to federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations governing the emission, discharge, use, storage and disposal of hazardous materials and the remediation of contamination associated with the release of these materials at our facilities and at off-site disposal locations.

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