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NCI Building Systems Stands Out as the Best Value in the Building Products Industry (NCS, BLDR, USHS, UFPI, ROCK)

Written on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 4:13am
By Chip Brian

Below are the top five companies in the Building Products industry as measured by the price to sales per share ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.
NCI Building Systems (NYSE:NCS) has a price/sales ratio of 0.06x based on a current price of $9.26 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $164.03.
Builders FirstSource (NASDAQ:BLDR) has a price/sales ratio of 0.16x based on a current price of $2.47 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $15.17.
US Home Systems (NASDAQ:USHS) has a price/sales ratio of 0.17x based on a current price of $2.79 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $16.54.
Universal Forest Products (NASDAQ:UFPI) has a price/sales ratio of 0.33x based on a current price of $31.14 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $94.82.
Gibraltar Industries (NASDAQ:ROCK) has a price/sales ratio of 0.4x based on a current price of $10.38 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $26.08.
SmarTrend is bearish on shares of UFPI and our subscribers were alerted to Sell on May 05, 2010 at $40.42. The stock has fallen 23% since the alert was issued.

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