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Horizon Discovery plc Price/Sales

What is the Price/Sales of Horizon Discovery plc?

The Price/Sales of Horizon Discovery Group plc is 5.13

What is the definition of Price/Sales?



Price to sales ratio is a company’s stock price compared to its revenues.

ttm (trailing twelve months)

The price to sales ratio, Price/Sales ratio, P/S ratio, or PSR, is a valuation metric for stocks. It is calculated by dividing the company's market cap by the revenue in the most recent year. It can also be calculated by dividing the per-share stock price by per-share revenue. The price to sales ratio is for trailing twelve months so the reported sales are for the four previous quarters. Longer time periods can be examined at times.

A smaller price to sales ratio is usually thought to be a better investment since the investor is paying less for each unit of sales. However, sales do not reveal the whole picture, as the company may be unprofitable with a low P/S ratio. Because of the limitations, this ratio is usually used only for unprofitable companies, since they don't have a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio). The metric can be used to determine the value of a stock relative to its past performance. It may also be used to determine relative valuation of a sector or the market as a whole.

Price to sales ratios vary greatly between sectors, so they are most useful in comparing similar stocks within a sector or sub-sector. Comparing P/S ratios carries the implicit assumption that all firms in the comparison have an identical capital structure.

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What does Horizon Discovery plc do?

Horizon Discovery Group plc, a cell engineering company, engages in the design, manufacture, and application of gene editing and gene modulation tools in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through Screening, Research Reagents, Diagnostics, and BioProduction segments. It provides custom-made and off-the-shelf (OTS) RNAi gene modulation reagents, CRISPR reagents, synthetic SGRNAs, OTS cell models, and custom cell engineering services. The company also offers pooled CRISPR screens; arrayed RNAi and CRISPR screens, drug screens, and immunology assays; and RNAi and CRISPR screening libraries; and human T-Cell CRISPR screening service to meet the requirements of immunology based research in drug discovery. In addition, it provides OTS gene-edited CHO cells and custom CHO cell lines, and custom CHO gene engineering services; and OTS cell-based reference standards, made to order reference standards, and custom cell-based reference standards to evaluate molecular assays on a research use basis. The company serves customers in academic research labs, biopharmaceutical and diagnostics companies, and contract research and manufacturing organizations. It sells its products through direct field sales channel and e-commerce platform. The company has a partnership with the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to develop and commercialize base editing, a gene editing technology; strategic collaboration with Mammoth Biosciences to develop CRISPR tools to provide engineered cell lines for the biopharmaceutical industry; and collaboration with St George's University Hospital, London, and the European Molecular Genetics Quality Network to develop reference material for non-invasive prenatal testing. Horizon Discovery Group plc was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

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