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, Symmetry Surgical's share price is €7.81.
Symmetry Surgical's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 was €8.22. Hence, Symmetry Surgical's PS Ratio for today is 0.95.
The historical rank and industry rank for Symmetry Surgical's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:RZV'
s PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.37 Med: 0.95 Max: 3.1
Current: 0.83
During the past 13 years, Symmetry Surgical's highest PS Ratio was 3.10. The lowest was 0.37. And the median was 0.95.
FRA:RZV's PS Ratio is not ranked
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry.
Industry Median: 3.175
vs FRA:RZV: 0.83
During the past 12 months, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate of Symmetry Surgical was 1.40% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 3.00% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 2.50% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 2.90% per year.
During the past 13 years, Symmetry Surgical's highest 3-Year average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 16.90% per year. The lowest was -12.30% per year. And the median was 3.00% per year.
Back to Basics: PS Ratio
Symmetry Surgical PS Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Symmetry Surgical'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 Symmetry Surgical's PS Ratio
For the Medical Devices subindustry, Symmetry Surgical'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.
Symmetry Surgical's PS Ratio Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry
For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Symmetry Surgical's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Symmetry Surgical's PS Ratio falls into.
Symmetry Surgical 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.
Symmetry Surgical's Share Price of today is €7.81. Symmetry Surgical'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 €8.22.
* 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.
Symmetry Surgical PS Ratio Related Terms
Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of Symmetry Surgical's PS Ratio provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.
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.
Quick Browse
Personalize
Premium Gurus 
Create New Portfolio
Portfolio Contest
FRA:RZV has been successfully added to your 