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Seaboard Leads the Companies in the Industrial Conglomerates Industry Offering Investors Top Value (SEB, TXT, SXI, OTTR, TG)

Written on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 4:02am
By Chip Brian

Below are the top five companies in the Industrial Conglomerates industry as measured by the price to sales per share ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.
Seaboard (AMEX:SEB) has a price/sales ratio of 0.5x based on a current price of $1509.5 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $2996.01.
Textron (NYSE:TXT) has a price/sales ratio of 0.54x based on a current price of $20.2 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $37.71.
Standex International (NYSE:SXI) has a price/sales ratio of 0.6x based on a current price of $27.21 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $45.62.
Otter Tail (NASDAQ:OTTR) has a price/sales ratio of 0.69x based on a current price of $20.01 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $28.81.
Tredegar (NYSE:TG) has a price/sales ratio of 0.84x based on a current price of $16.91 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $20.11.
SmarTrend is bearish on shares of OTTR and our subscribers were alerted to Sell on May 06, 2010 at $20.65. The stock has fallen 3.1% since the alert was issued.

Keywords: amex:seb seaboard price to sales ratio

Ticker(s): TXT SXI OTTR TG SEB

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