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The Price-to-Sales Ratio: Valuing Companies With No Profits (Yet)

Valuation • Beginner Investing • 7 min

Every public company has revenue — even one that's losing money hand over fist almost always has a real, positive number for total sales. That single fact is what makes the price-to-sales ratio useful in exactly the situations where the P/E ratio breaks down completely. P/S is calculated as market capitalization divided by total annual revenue (or, equivalently, share price divided by revenue per share). Where P/E…

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