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, Valassis Communications's share price is €24.97.
Valassis Communications's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2013 was €39.46. Hence, Valassis Communications's PS Ratio for today is 0.63.
The historical rank and industry rank for Valassis Communications's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:VAA's PS Ratio is not ranked *
in the Media - Diversified industry.
Industry Median: 1.39 * Ranked among companies with meaningful PS Ratio only.
* 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 Valassis Communications's PS Ratio
For the Advertising Agencies subindustry, Valassis Communications'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.
Valassis Communications's PS Ratio Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry
For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Valassis Communications's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Valassis Communications's PS Ratio falls into.
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.
Valassis Communications's Share Price of today is €24.97. Valassis Communications's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2013 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €39.46.
* 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:
Valassis Communications (FRA:VAA) PS Ratio Explanation
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.
Valassis Communications PS Ratio Related Terms
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Valassis Communications Inc is a Delaware Corporation. The Company is an intelligent media delivery, providing over 15,000 advertisers proven and innovative media solutions to influence consumers wherever they plan, shop, buy and share. By integrating online and offline data combined with powerful insights, Valassis precisely targets its clients' valuable shoppers, offering unparalleled reach and scale. It operates its business in three reportable segments: Shared Mail - offer the only national shared mail distribution network in the industry with products that have the ability to reach 9 out of 10 U.S. households through shared mail distribution. Neighborhood Targeted - Products that are targeted to specific newspaper zones or neighborhoods based on geographic and demographic characteristics. The Company specializes in producing full-service promotions for clients allowing orders to be placed on a national, regional or local basis. Free-standing Inserts - Four-color booklets that contain promotions, mainly coupons, from multiple advertisers (cooperative), which it publish and distribute to approximately 60 million households through newspapers and shared mail. Cooperative Free-standing Inserts ('FSI') are four-color booklets containing promotions, primarily coupons, from multiple clients, printed by the Company at its own facilities and distributed through newspapers and shared mail. Paper is the main raw material essential to its business. The extent and nature of the competition are, in large part, determined by location and demographics of the markets targeted by a particular advertiser and the number of media alternatives in those markets.
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