Revenue per Share (RPS)

Calculate the revenue per share, a valuation ratio that measures the amount of revenue generated per outstanding share of a company’s stock.

The revenue per share is an important metric that provides insight into a company’s ability to generate revenue on a per-share basis. It can help investors understand the company’s revenue-generation efficiency and its overall financial health.

The formula is as follows:

Also known as: sales per share.

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Calculate the Revenue per Share (RPS) in Python

The Revenue per Share (RPS) is available in the Ratios module of the open-source Finance Toolkit. Install it with:

pip install financetoolkit -U

Then call get_revenue_per_share as shown below.

from financetoolkit import Toolkit

toolkit = Toolkit(["AAPL", "TSLA"], api_key="FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_KEY")

revenue_per_share = toolkit.ratios.get_revenue_per_share()

Which returns:

Parameters

get_revenue_per_share accepts the following parameters:

• diluted (bool, optional): Whether to use diluted shares in the calculation. Defaults to True.
• rounding (int, optional): The number of decimals to round the results to. Defaults to 4.
• growth (bool, optional): Whether to calculate the growth of the ratios. Defaults to False.
• lag (int | str, optional): The lag to use for the growth calculation. Defaults to 1.
• standardize (bool, optional): Whether to standardize (Z-Score) the result. When combined with growth=True, standardizes the growth values instead of the raw values. Defaults to False.
• trailing (int): Defines whether to select a trailing period. E.g. when selecting 4 with quarterly data, the TTM is calculated.

Related Valuation Ratios

The Ratios module page introduces the module, and the sidebar lists all of its functions.