Pakistan Hotels Developers (PHDL) historical prices

Market cap

What the whole company costs at today's price.

How it's worked out

Share price multiplied by every share in issue.

How to read it

It is the company's size, not its value. A big number does not mean the price is high against earnings, and a small one does not mean it is low — that is what the ratios below are for.

Price per rupee earned

Rupees you pay for each rupee the company earned last year.

How it's worked out

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve reported months.

How to read it

Lower only means something against something — the same company's history, its sector, or the market. On its own this ratio says very little, and it is blank when a company lost money.

Earnings yield

What the business earns on its price, so it lines up with a savings rate.

How it's worked out

Earnings per share divided by the share price — the price-to-earnings ratio turned over.

How to read it

If a company earns 17% against its price and a T-bill pays 12%, you can finally compare the two. It is what the business earns, not what it pays you — the dividend yield is the cash that reaches your account.

Dividend yield

Cash paid out over the last year as a percentage of today's price.

How it's worked out

Dividends per share over twelve months divided by the share price.

How to read it

A very high yield is often a warning, not a gift: it usually means the price fell. Check the payout ratio next to see whether earnings actually cover it.

Price, earnings and growth together

The price per rupee earned, measured against how fast earnings are growing.

How it's worked out

The price-to-earnings ratio divided by the three-year growth rate of earnings per share.

How to read it

Under 1 is the old rule of thumb for a multiple that growth justifies. Blank when earnings are shrinking, because the ratio flips sign and stops meaning anything.

vs the KSE-100's own multiple

Whether a rupee of this company's earnings costs more or less than the market's.

How it's worked out

Its price-to-earnings ratio against the KSE-100's, which we compute as the total market cap of the index over the total earnings of its members.

How to read it

−30% means it trades thirty percent below the market's multiple. Below the market is a question, not an answer: often the market is right about why.

Total return, one year

What a holder actually made, dividends included.

How it's worked out

The price move over twelve months plus every cash dividend paid in that window, counted as received on its ex-date.

How to read it

Every other PSX site quotes the price move alone. On a market yielding what this one does, that understates what holders made by a third or more.

— from dividends

The part of the year's return that arrived as cash.

How it's worked out

Dividends per share over the year divided by the price twelve months ago.

How to read it

The half of the return a price chart cannot show you. For many PSX names it is most of it.

Price impact per Rs 1M

How much a Rs 1,000,000 order moves the price on a typical day.

How it's worked out

We take the size of the price move on each day and divide it by the money traded that day, then scale it to a Rs 1,000,000 order. We use the middle value over the last year. Traders call this the Amihud ratio. It is shown in basis points: 100 basis points is 1%, so 0.07 basis points is 0.0007%.

How to read it

A small number means an order of this size barely moves the price. A large number means the price moves a lot when someone buys or sells this much.

Position in 52-week range

Where today's price sits between the year's low and high.

How it's worked out

Zero at the 52-week low, 100 at the high.

How to read it

Near 100 is strength or froth; near 0 is a bargain or a falling knife. The number tells you where you are, never which of the two.

Trend read

A plain-English summary of what the price series has been doing.

How it's worked out

Built from moving averages, momentum, the 52-week position and drawdown, and held for three sessions before it changes so it does not flip on noise.

How to read it

It describes the past and names its reasons. It is not a recommendation, and it knows nothing about the company.