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, Compuware's share price is €7.98.
Compuware's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 was €2.01. Hence, Compuware's PS Ratio for today is 3.98.
The historical rank and industry rank for Compuware's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:CWR'
s PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.18 Med: 2.24 Max: 3.92
Current: 3.83
During the past 13 years, Compuware's highest PS Ratio was 3.92. The lowest was 1.18. And the median was 2.24.
FRA:CWR's PS Ratio is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 2.22
vs FRA:CWR: 3.83
Compuware Corp revenue has been in decline for the last 5 years.
During the past 12 months, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate of Compuware was -4.90% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 1.70% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was -2.40% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 0.50% per year.
During the past 13 years, Compuware's highest 3-Year average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 72.20% per year. The lowest was -15.10% per year. And the median was 1.70% per year.
Back to Basics: PS Ratio
Compuware PS Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Compuware'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.
For the Software - Application subindustry, Compuware'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.
Compuware's PS Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Compuware's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Compuware's PS Ratio falls into.
Compuware 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.
Compuware's Share Price of today is €7.98. Compuware's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €2.01.
* 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:
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.
Compuware PS Ratio Related Terms
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Compuware Corp a Michigan corporation was incorporated in 1973. The Company delivers services and software that enable its customers' important technologies to perform at their peak. It delivers the solutions through software that is installed and run on its customers' owned hardware and applications and through a Software as a Service ('SaaS') model accessed via its hosted networks. It has six business segments: Application Performance Managemen (APM), Mainframe, Changepoint, Uniface, Professional Services and Covisint Application Services ('Covisint'). Its Compuware Application Performance Management ('Compuware APM') consists of its solutions for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Its Mainframe Software Products improve the productivity of development, maintenance and support teams in application analysis, testing, defect detection and remediation, fault management, file and data management, data compliance and application performance management in the IBM z/OS environment. Its Changepoint software combines professional services automation with project portfolio management capabilities to give customers complete visibility into projects, investments and resources for informed business planning and financial control. Its Uniface solution is Compuware's Rapid Application Development environment for building, renewing and integrating some of the complex enterprise applications. Its Covisint application services provide a cloud engagement platform for enabling organizations to securely connect, engage and collaborate with large, distributed communities of customers, business partners and suppliers. Its products and services are used by the IT departments and lines of business of a of commercial and government organizations. Its competitors include BMC Software Inc., CA, Inc., International Business Machines ('IBM'), Hewlett-Packard Company, Keynote Systems, Inc., Accenture, Computer Sciences Corporation, HP Enterprise Services, Analysts International Corporation and Infosys Technologies.
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