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, StanCorp Financial Group's share price is $114.97.
StanCorp Financial Group's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 was $67.72. Hence, StanCorp Financial Group's PS Ratio for today is 1.70.
The historical rank and industry rank for StanCorp Financial Group's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
SFG's PS Ratio is not ranked *
in the Insurance industry.
Industry Median: 1.035 * 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 StanCorp Financial Group's PS Ratio
For the Insurance - Life subindustry, StanCorp Financial Group'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.
StanCorp Financial Group's PS Ratio Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, StanCorp Financial Group's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where StanCorp Financial Group's PS Ratio falls into.
StanCorp Financial Group 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.
StanCorp Financial Group's Share Price of today is $114.97. StanCorp Financial Group's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $67.72.
* 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:
StanCorp Financial Group (NYSE:SFG) 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.
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StanCorp Financial Group (StanCorp Financial Group) Business Description
StanCorp Financial Group Inc was incorporated in 1998 in Oregon. It is a holding company and conducts business through wholly-owned operating subsidiaries throughout the United States. Through its subsidiaries, they have the authority to underwrite insurance products in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands. It operates through two segments: Insurance Services and Asset Management. Insurance Services contains two reportable product segments, Employee Benefits and Individual Disability. Insurance Services is comprised of its Employee Benefits and Individual Disability segments, and offers group life and AD&D insurance, group and individual disability insurance, group dental and group vision insurance, and absence management services to individuals and employer groups ranging in size from two lives to 167,000 lives. The Company has approximately 43,000 group insurance policies in force, covering approximately 6.2 million employees as of December 31, 2013. Group life insurance products provide coverage to insured employees for a specified period and have no cash value (amount of cash available to an insured employee on the surrender of, or withdrawal from, the life insurance policy). Coverage is offered to insured employees and their dependents. AD&D insurance is usually provided in conjunction with group life insurance, and is payable after the accidental death or dismemberment of the insured in an amount based on the face amount of the policy or dismemberment schedule. The Asset Management segment offers full-service 401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, 457 plans, defined benefit plans, money purchase pension plans, profit sharing plans and non-qualified deferred compensation products and services. This segment also offers investment advisory and management services, financial planning services, origination and servicing of fixed-rate commercial mortgage loans, individual fixed-rate annuity products, group annuity contracts and retirement plan trust products. The Company reports its holding company and corporate activities in the Other category. This category includes return on capital not allocated to the product segments, holding company expenses, operations of certain unallocated subsidiaries, interest on debt, unallocated expenses, net capital gains and losses related to the impairment or the disposition of its invested assets and adjustments made in consolidation. Competition for the sale of its products comes primarily from other insurers and financial services companies such as banks, broker-dealers, mutual funds, and managed care providers for employer groups, individual consumers and distributors. The Company's insurance products are regulated by the jurisdictions in which they sell their products including all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands.
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