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To: Backfill who wrote (19672)	5/25/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

P/S= price/sales= market cap/trailing 12 month sales= total number of shares outstanding X price per share/trailing yearly sales. Or, you can do it the easy way and access it off a database. I use the one at E-trade, which also gives me all the historical data. Caveat: all databases contain errors, and I sometimes make math mistakes. That's one of the reasons I post here, so other people can point out my errors (small grin). I think everyone uses trailing sales; however, given the current market mood, there are probably people calculating P/S ratios using estimates of sales in 2002. (SG).