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China Telecom (HKSE:00728) Net Cash per Share : HK$-3.67 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is China Telecom Net Cash per Share?

Net Cash per Share is calculated as Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities minus Total Liabilities minus Minority Interest and then divided by Shares Outstanding (EOP). China Telecom's Net Cash per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was HK$-3.67.

The historical rank and industry rank for China Telecom's Net Cash per Share or its related term are showing as below:

HKSE:00728's Price-to-Net-Cash is not ranked *
in the Telecommunication Services industry.
Industry Median: 7.44
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Net-Cash only.

China Telecom Net Cash per Share Historical Data

The historical data trend for China Telecom's Net Cash per Share 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.

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China Telecom Net Cash per Share Chart

China Telecom Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Net Cash per Share
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -4.48 -4.67 -3.46 -3.65 -3.60

China Telecom Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Net Cash per Share Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - -3.62 -3.62 -3.60 -3.67

Competitive Comparison of China Telecom's Net Cash per Share

For the Telecom Services subindustry, China Telecom'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 Telecom's Price-to-Net-Cash Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, China Telecom's Price-to-Net-Cash distribution charts can be found below:

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



China Telecom 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 Telecom's Net Cash per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Net Cash per Share (A: Dec. 2023 )
=(Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities-Total Liabilities-Minority Interest)/Shares Outstanding (EOP)
=(100464.684-425093.883-4638.716)/91507.1
=-3.60

China Telecom's Net Cash per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Net Cash per Share (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=(Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities-Total Liabilities-Minority Interest)/Shares Outstanding (EOP)
=(95513.101-427090.724-4639.963)/91507.1
=-3.67

* 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 Telecom  (HKSE:00728) 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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China Telecom (HKSE:00728) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
31 Jinrong Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, CHN, 100033
China Telecom is the largest fixed-line operator in China, originally covering 21 southern provinces. It has 102 million fixed-line subscribers, 189 million broadband customers, and 406 million wireless subscribers, having overtaken China Unicom to become the second-largest wireless operator in China behind China Mobile. The firm is increasing its cross-selling of products and seeing strong growth from industrial digitization services, such as internet data centers and cloud computing. Its internet data center business is already the largest in China, with a plan to have 560,000 cabinets by end 2023.

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