SEASONALITY STOCK REPORTS

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Price to sales ratios............
A price-to-sales ratio of 0.9 means that $1 worth of a company's revenue can be purchased for 90 cents. PSRs vary by industry, but the PSRs of these stocks are below both the average multiple for their respective industries, are less than 1.0, and are off at least 10% from five-year averages. All these companies have latest-12 month sales above $100 million.



Spotlight On The PSR
Company
Price
Industry
Current Price-To-Sales Ratio
Price-To-Sales Five-Year Average
Market
Value
($mil)

Bristol West Holdings (nyse: BRW - news - people )
$19.07
Insurance (Prop. & Casualty)
0.86
1.18
$583

CDW (nasdaq: CDWC - news - people )
58.79
Retail (Catalog & Mail Order)
0.77
0.95
4,706

Chevron (nyse: CVX - news - people )
58.34
Oil & Gas -- Integrated
0.66
0.75
129,429

Dynamics Research (nyse: DRCO - news - people )
15.09
Computer Networks
0.46
0.57
136

Talbots (nyse: TLB - news - people )
26.33
Retail (Apparel)
0.79
1.09
1,431

Prices as of April 3
Sources: FT Interactive Data and Reuters Fundamentals via FactSet