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Australian Clinical Labs (ASX:ACL) PS Ratio : 0.74 (As of May. 16, 2024)


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What is Australian Clinical Labs PS Ratio?

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, Australian Clinical Labs's share price is A$2.44. Australian Clinical Labs's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was A$3.30. Hence, Australian Clinical Labs's PS Ratio for today is 0.74.

Good Sign:

Australian Clinical Labs Ltd stock PS Ratio (=0.71) is close to 1-year low of 0.66

The historical rank and industry rank for Australian Clinical Labs's PS Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

ASX:ACL' s PS Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.59   Med: 0.86   Max: 1.47
Current: 0.74

During the past 4 years, Australian Clinical Labs's highest PS Ratio was 1.47. The lowest was 0.59. And the median was 0.86.

ASX:ACL's PS Ratio is ranked better than
86.7% of 218 companies
in the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry
Industry Median: 3.07 vs ASX:ACL: 0.74

Australian Clinical Labs's Revenue per Sharefor the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$1.68. Its Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was A$3.30.

Warning Sign:

Australian Clinical Labs Ltd revenue per share is in decline over the past 12 months.

During the past 12 months, the average Revenue per Share Growth Rate of Australian Clinical Labs was -18.70% per year.

Back to Basics: PS Ratio


Australian Clinical Labs PS Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Australian Clinical Labs'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.

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Australian Clinical Labs PS Ratio Chart

Australian Clinical Labs Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
PS Ratio
- 0.81 0.93 1.00

Australian Clinical Labs Semi-Annual Data
Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
PS Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial - 0.93 - 1.00 -

Competitive Comparison of Australian Clinical Labs's PS Ratio

For the Diagnostics & Research subindustry, Australian Clinical Labs'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.


Australian Clinical Labs's PS Ratio Distribution in the Medical Diagnostics & Research Industry

For the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry and Healthcare sector, Australian Clinical Labs's PS Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Australian Clinical Labs's PS Ratio falls into.



Australian Clinical Labs 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.

Australian Clinical Labs's PS Ratio for today is calculated as

PS Ratio=Share Price/Revenue per Share (TTM)
=2.44/3.296
=0.74

Australian Clinical Labs's Share Price of today is A$2.44.
For company reported semi-annually, GuruFocus uses latest annual data as the TTM data. Australian Clinical Labs's Revenue per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was A$3.30.

* 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:

PS Ratio=Market Cap/Revenue

The Revenue here is for the trailing 12 months.


Australian Clinical Labs  (ASX:ACL) 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.

Similar to the PE Ratio or Price-to-Operating-Cash-Flow or Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow , the PS Ratio measures the valuation based on the earning power of the company. This is where it is different from the PB Ratio , which measures the valuation based on the company's balance sheet.


Be Aware

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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Australian Clinical Labs (ASX:ACL) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
1868-1892 Dandenong Road, Clayton, VIC, AUS, 3168
Australian Clinical Labs, or ACL, is Australia's third-largest private pathology provider. ACL earns almost its entire group revenue from pathology services in Australia, which are mostly earned via the publicly funded health Medicare system. ACL is well-established in the states of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and the Northern Territory.

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