China Natural Gas (China Natural Gas) Net Cash per Share : $-3.62 (As of Sep. 2013)

China Natural Gas Net Cash per Share Chart

China Natural Gas Annual Data
	Trend	Jul03	Jul04	Jul05	Dec06	Dec07	Dec08	Dec09	Dec10	Dec11	Dec12
Net Cash per Share		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-2.79	-0.25	-3.16	-3.57	-3.43

China Natural Gas Quarterly Data
	Dec08	Mar09	Jun09	Sep09	Dec09	Mar10	Jun10	Sep10	Dec10	Mar11	Jun11	Sep11	Dec11	Mar12	Jun12	Sep12	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13
Net Cash per Share	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-3.80	-3.43	-3.39	-3.51	-3.62

Competitive Comparison of China Natural Gas's Net Cash per Share

For the Utilities - Regulated Gas subindustry, China Natural Gas'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.

China Natural Gas's Price-to-Net-Cash Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, China Natural Gas's Price-to-Net-Cash distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where China Natural Gas's Price-to-Net-Cash falls into.

China Natural Gas 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.

China Natural Gas's Net Cash per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2012 is calculated as

China Natural Gas's Net Cash per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2013 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.

China Natural Gas  (OTCPK:CHNGQ) 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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