P/S: What It Means in Stock Research
Price-to-sales: the company's total stock value divided by a year of revenue — useful when profits are small or missing.
Why this term matters
Valuation terms answer one question: is today's price high or low for what this business actually is? They compare the price tag to what the company earns, owns, and can plausibly become.
In a Monsaic report, you’ll meet p/s in the “Worth the price?” section of the simplified read, and the Valuation & Scenarios analysis of the full report. Inside a report, tapping any underlined term shows this same definition in place — the reading never has to stop for a search.
Related Price & valuation terms
- EV/Sales — Enterprise value divided by a year of revenue — like price-to-sales, but it also counts the company's debt and cash.
- Trailing earnings — The profit actually earned over the last 12 months — the rear-view number, not a forecast.
- 52-week range — The lowest and highest prices the stock has traded at over the past year.
- P/E — Price-to-earnings: how many years of the company's current profit you are paying for at today's share price.
- Valuation multiple — A shorthand ratio — like price-to-earnings — for how much the market pays per dollar the company makes.
- Tail case — The extreme scenario: unlikely, but bad enough to take seriously.
See “p/s” in a live report
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