Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. (AIT): Price and Financial Metrics

AIT POWR Grades

• AIT scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 94.99% of US stocks.
• AIT's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• AIT ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 56th percentile.

AIT Stock Summary

• AIT's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 1.34 -- higher than just 6.81% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• AIT's went public 36.27 years ago, making it older than 92.84% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, Applied Industrial Technologies Inc is reporting a growth rate of 1,295.44%; that's higher than 98.28% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Applied Industrial Technologies Inc are SCVL, CRI, UFPI, KFY, and SIGI.
• Visit AIT's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.applied.com.

AIT Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, AIT's price/sales ratio is 69.7% lower, now standing at 1.
• AIT's price/earnings ratio has moved up 12.6 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, AIT's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 11.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AIT.

AIT Growth Metrics

Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 280.18%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 7.29%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 241.16%.

Over the past 34 months, AIT's revenue has gone up $17,663,000.

The table below shows AIT'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	3,505.38	163.605	225.302
2021-09-30	3,379.793	208.497	162.942
2021-06-30	3,235.919	241.697	144.757
2021-03-31	3,065.107	330.499	115.502
2020-12-31	3,054.967	351.171	-23.338
2020-09-30	3,137.055	328.538	20.027

AIT'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.

• AIT has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 89.94% of graded US stocks.
• AIT's asset turnover comes in at 1.427 -- ranking 54th of 105 Wholesale stocks.
• PETQ, RAVE, and MEDS are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AIT.

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