Ardmore Shipping Corporation (ASC): Price and Financial Metrics

ASC POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where ASC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 98.68% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for ASC is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 178 days.
• ASC's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 11.63% of US stocks).

ASC Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 2.96, ARDMORE SHIPPING CORP P/E ratio is greater than that of about just 3.96% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• Over the past twelve months, ASC has reported earnings growth of -1,228.55%, putting it ahead of only 1.51% of US stocks in our set.
• ARDMORE SHIPPING CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 38.06%, greater than the shareholder yield of 95.83% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to ASC, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are EGLE, SLCA, SMHI, ESEA, and CXW.
• Visit ASC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to ardmoreshipping.com.

ASC Valuation Summary

• ASC's price/sales ratio is 1.1; this is 45% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 122 months, ASC's price/sales ratio has gone down 8.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for ASC.

ASC Growth Metrics

Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 42.5%.
• The 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -39.35%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 19.29%.

Over the past 34 months, ASC's revenue has gone up $212,771,632.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	445.741	124.207	135.054
2022-09-30	365.3691	62.88702	73.42099
2022-06-30	270.1519	5.67023	-0.384163
2022-03-31	210.301	-7.446411	-37.44024
2021-12-31	192.4843	-2.885404	-38.0867
2021-12-31	192.4843	-2.885404	-38.0867

ASC'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.

• ASC has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 15.87% of graded US stocks.
• ASC's asset turnover comes in at 0.242 -- ranking 80th of 137 Transportation stocks.
• USAK, SNDR, and JBHT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with ASC.

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