QUSW Quality Steel Works share price

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.

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.

Average volume

Shares changing hands on a typical day.

How it's worked out

The mean daily volume over thirty sessions.

How to read it

Shares, not rupees — a million shares of a Rs 3 stock is a small market. "Traded per session" is the version in money.

Free float

The shares that can actually be bought and sold.

How it's worked out

Total shares minus the blocks held by sponsors, the government and other locked-in holders, as the exchange reports them.

How to read it

The float, not the market cap, is what sets how easily a real position can be built or unwound.

Shares outstanding

Every share the company has issued.

How it's worked out

The share count in the company's own filings, including the blocks nobody trades.

How to read it

Divide any per-share figure by this. It is larger than the free float on almost every PSX name, because sponsors and the government own shares that never reach the market.