DS Smith (LSE:SMDS) Net Cash per Share : £-3.42 (As of Oct. 2023)

DS Smith Net Cash per Share Chart

DS Smith Annual Data
	Trend	Apr14	Apr15	Apr16	Apr17	Apr18	Apr19	Apr20	Apr21	Apr22	Apr23
Net Cash per Share		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-3.66	-3.41	-3.17	-3.51	-3.56

DS Smith Semi-Annual Data
	Apr14	Oct14	Apr15	Oct15	Apr16	Oct16	Apr17	Oct17	Apr18	Oct18	Apr19	Oct19	Apr20	Oct20	Apr21	Oct21	Apr22	Oct22	Apr23	Oct23
Net Cash per Share	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-3.25	-3.51	-3.78	-3.56	-3.42

Competitive Comparison of DS Smith's Net Cash per Share

For the Packaging & Containers subindustry, DS Smith'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.

DS Smith's Price-to-Net-Cash Distribution in the Packaging & Containers Industry

For the Packaging & Containers industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, DS Smith's Price-to-Net-Cash distribution charts can be found below:

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

DS Smith 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.

DS Smith's Net Cash per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2023 is calculated as

DS Smith's Net Cash per Share for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 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.

DS Smith  (LSE:SMDS) 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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