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National Dentex Leads the Companies in the Health Care Supplies Industry Offering Investors Top Value (NADX, MDCI, SPAN, RTIX, WST)

Written on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 3:49am
By Chip Brian

Below are the top five companies in the Health Care Supplies industry as measured by the price to sales per share ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.
National Dentex (NASDAQ:NADX) has a price/sales ratio of 0.61x based on a current price of $16.93 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $27.82.
Medical Action Industries (NASDAQ:MDCI) has a price/sales ratio of 0.71x based on a current price of $12.75 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $17.87.
Span-America Medical Systems (NASDAQ:SPAN) has a price/sales ratio of 0.89x based on a current price of $17.79 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $20.01.
RTI Biologics (NASDAQ:RTIX) has a price/sales ratio of 0.93x based on a current price of $2.8 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $3.01.
West Pharmaceutical Services (NYSE:WST) has a price/sales ratio of 1.06x based on a current price of $35.01 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $33.02.
SmarTrend is bullish on shares of NADX and our subscribers were alerted to Buy on March 09, 2010 at $9.97. The stock has risen 69.8% since the alert was issued.

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Ticker(s): NADX MDCI SPAN RTIX WST

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