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, Alto Ingredients's share price is $1.84.
Alto Ingredients's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $16.63. Hence, Alto Ingredients's PS Ratio for today is 0.11.
Good Sign:
Alto Ingredients Inc stock PS Ratio (=0.12) is close to 1-year low of 0.11
The historical rank and industry rank for Alto Ingredients's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
ALTO'
s PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.01 Med: 0.16 Max: 0.52
Current: 0.12
During the past 13 years, Alto Ingredients's highest PS Ratio was 0.52. The lowest was 0.01. And the median was 0.16.
ALTO's PS Ratio is ranked better than 98.76% of 1527
companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 1.47
vs ALTO: 0.12
Alto Ingredients Inc revenue per share has been in decline for the last 5 years.
During the past 12 months, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate of Alto Ingredients was -10.20% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 2.90% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was -13.50% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was -13.30% per year.
During the past 13 years, Alto Ingredients's highest 3-Year average Revenue per Share Growth Rate was 1829.80% per year. The lowest was -87.20% per year. And the median was -21.80% per year.
Back to Basics: PS Ratio
Alto Ingredients PS Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Alto Ingredients's PS Ratio 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.
Competitive Comparison of Alto Ingredients's PS Ratio
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Alto Ingredients'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.
Alto Ingredients's PS Ratio Distribution in the Chemicals Industry
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Alto Ingredients's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Alto Ingredients's PS Ratio falls into.
Alto Ingredients 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.
Alto Ingredients's Share Price of today is $1.84. Alto Ingredients's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $16.63.
* 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:
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.
Alto Ingredients PS Ratio Related Terms
Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of Alto Ingredients's PS Ratio provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.
Alto Ingredients (Alto Ingredients) Business Description
Alto Ingredients Inc is a producer of specialty alcohols and essential ingredients. The company serves five markets: Health, Home and Beauty, Food and Beverage, Essential Ingredients, and Renewable Fuels. Its customers include major food and beverage companies and consumer products manufacturers and distributors. The company operates under three segments: Marketing and distribution, Pekin Campus production, and Other production. The Marketing and distribution segment participates in marketing and merchant trading for alcohols and essential ingredients; Pekin Campus produces and sells products produced at the company's Pekin, Illinois, campus, and about half of the firm's revenue flows from this segment. Other production makes and sells from the company's other production facilities.
Quick Browse
Personalize
Premium Gurus 
Create New Portfolio
Portfolio Contest
ALTO has been successfully added to your 