Alliance Data Systems Corporation (ADS): Price and Financial Metrics

ADS POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where ADS ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 93.41% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for ADS is in Sentiment, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• ADS's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 3.97% of US stocks).

ADS Stock Summary

• ADS's current price/earnings ratio is 3.66, which is higher than only 3.04% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• The price/operating cash flow metric for Alliance Data Systems Corp is higher than only 5.96% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for Alliance Data Systems Corp comes in at -39.66%, a number that bests only 4.3% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Alliance Data Systems Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be MOFG, FIBK, WAFD, FULT, and CFBK.
• Visit ADS's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.alliancedata.com.

ADS Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, ADS's price/sales ratio is 65.62% lower, now standing at 1.1.
• ADS's price/earnings ratio has moved up 74.6 over the prior 243 months.
• ADS's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for ADS.

ADS Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -73.12%.
• The 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 359.46%.
• The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at -27.13%.

ADS's revenue has moved down $4,712,800,000 over the prior 52 months.

The table below shows ADS's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	2,728	1,543	801
2021-09-30	4,306.5	1,602.1	795.4
2021-06-30	4,257.7	1,548.4	705
2021-03-31	4,224.6	1,827.4	469.9
2020-12-31	4,521.4	1,882.7	213.7
2020-09-30	4,872.6	1,176.1	299.2

ADS's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• ADS has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 49.47% of graded US stocks.
• ADS's asset turnover comes in at 0.197 -- ranking 489th of 561 Business Services stocks.
• ACIW, FORR, and EGAN are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with ADS.

The table below shows ADS's key quality metrics over time.