Below are the five companies in the Multi-Utilities industry with the lowest Price To Forward Sales ratios. The ratio shows how much Wall Street values every dollar of the company's future sales and is useful in comparing comparable companies. Generally the lower the ratio, the more attractive the investment.
Integrys Energy (NYSE:TEG) has the lowest with a Price To Forward Sales of 0.67x; CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS) is next with a Price To Forward Sales of 0.73x; and CH Energy (NYSE:CHG) has the next lowest with a Price To Forward Sales of 0.79x.
Avista (NYSE:AVA) follows with a Price To Forward Sales of 0.80x and Black Hills (NYSE:BKH) rounds out the group with a Price To Forward Sales of 0.84x.
SmarTrend currently has shares of Black Hills in an Uptrend and issued the Uptrend alert on August 29, 2011 at $30.09. The stock has risen 1.8% since the Uptrend alert was issued.