The historical rank and industry rank for Plum Creek Timber Co's Net Cash per Share or its related term are showing as below:
PCL's Price-to-Net-Cash is not ranked *
in the Forest Products industry.
Industry Median: 6.7 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Net-Cash only.
Plum Creek Timber Co Net Cash per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Plum Creek Timber Co's Net Cash per Share 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 Plum Creek Timber Co's Net Cash per Share
For the Lumber & Wood Production subindustry, Plum Creek Timber Co's Price-to-Net-Cash, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Net-Cash 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.
Plum Creek Timber Co's Price-to-Net-Cash Distribution in the Forest Products Industry
For the Forest Products industry and Basic Materials sector, Plum Creek Timber Co's Price-to-Net-Cash distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Plum Creek Timber Co's Price-to-Net-Cash falls into.
Plum Creek Timber Co Net Cash per Share Calculation
In the calculation of a company's Net Cash per Share, assets other than cash and short term investments are considered to be worth nothing. But the company has to pay its debt and other liabilities in full. This is an extremely conservative way of valuation. Most companies have negative Net Cash per Share. But sometimes a company's price may be lower than its net-cash.
Plum Creek Timber Co's Net Cash per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 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.
Plum Creek Timber Co (NYSE:PCL) Net Cash per Share Explanation
Ben Graham invested in situations where the company's stock price was lower than its net-cash. He assigned some value to the company's other current asset. The value is called Net Current Asset Value (NCAV). 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 Graham's strategy produced similar results.
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Plum Creek Timber Co Net Cash per Share Related Terms
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Plum Creek Timber Co (Plum Creek Timber Co) Business Description
Plum Creek Timber Co Inc was incorporated in Delaware. It is a real estate investment trust. The Company owned approximately 6.6 million acres of timberlands located in 19 states. It manages its timberlands in two business segments: the Northern Resources Segment, consisting of timberlands in Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin; and the Southern Resources Segment, consisting of timberlands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. In addition, its Energy and Natural Resources Segment includes its natural resource businesses that focus on opportunities for oil and natural gas production, construction aggregates and mineral extraction, wind power and communication and transportation rights of way. The Company's real estate segment includes development of certain properties, internally and through joint venture arrangements. The Company's manufacturing segment, also conducted through its wholly-owned taxable REIT subsidiaries, includes two lumber mills, two plywood mills and two medium density fiberboard ("MDF") production lines in Montana and one lumber remanufacturing facility in Idaho. Some of its real estate activities, including its real estate development business, are conducted through its wholly-owned taxable REIT subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2014, the Northern Resources Segment encompassed approximately 3.1 million acres of timberlands and the Southern Resources Segment consisted of approximately 3.6 million acres of timberlands. In its Real Estate Segment, the Company competes with numerous sellers of entitled and unentitled land in hundreds of local markets. The Company's operations are subject to federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations, including laws relating to water, air, solid waste and hazardous substances and the requirements of the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act and comparable state statutes relating to the health and safety of its employees.
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