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).
Coastal Contacts's net current asset value per share for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2014 was €-0.03.
The historical rank and industry rank for Coastal Contacts's Net Current Asset Value or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:C9R1's Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value is not ranked *
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry.
Industry Median: 4.735 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value only.
Coastal Contacts Net Current Asset Value Historical Data
The historical data trend for Coastal Contacts'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 Coastal Contacts's Net Current Asset Value
For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Coastal Contacts'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.
Coastal Contacts's Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry
For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Coastal Contacts's Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Coastal Contacts's Price-to-Net-Current-Asset-Value falls into.
Coastal Contacts Net Current Asset Value Calculation
Coastal Contacts's Net Current Asset Value (NCAV) per share for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2013 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.
Coastal Contacts (FRA:C9R1) 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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Coastal Contacts Inc. was incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act on December 14, 2000. The Company is an online retailer of vision care products. It is a direct-to-consumer retailer of vision care products and services. The Company sells contact lenses, eyeglasses and related products mainly through the Company's internet websites, although customers may also place orders over the telephone. It has operations and distribution centers in North America, Europe and Australia. The Company sells contact lenses manufactured by multinational companies such as Johnson and Johnson Inc., CIBA Vision Corporation (a division of Alcon), Bausch & Lomb Inc. and Coopervision Inc. It sells eyeglasses, which are mainly assembled in the Company's own laboratories, composed of frames and lenses purchased from a variety of different suppliers. The frames it uses in its eyeglasses include both branded frames and the Company's own private label frames such as Derek Cardigan, Kam Dhillon, Ltede and Joseph Marc. The Company also sells a variety of vision related products such as sunglasses and contact lens solutions including its own Healthy Eyes brand multipurpose contact lens solution for soft contact lenses. It offers substantially all of the soft contact lenses produced by the contact lens manufacturers, including Johnson & Johnson Inc., CIBA Vision Corporation, Bausch & Lomb Inc. and Coopervision Inc. The Company conducts all of its product fulfillment operations from the Company's distribution facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Stockholm, Sweden; Blaine, Washington and Sydney, Australia.
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