The Buckle Inc. (BKE): Price and Financial Metrics

BKE POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where BKE ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 99.74% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for BKE is in Momentum, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• BKE's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 36.29% of US stocks).

BKE Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 7.7, Buckle Inc P/E ratio is greater than that of about only 15.84% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• Of note is the ratio of Buckle Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.61% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for BKE comes in at 8.95% -- higher than that of 82.52% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Buckle Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be ACU, SKY, FELE, TMP, and DORM.
• Visit BKE's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.buckle.com.

BKE Valuation Summary

• BKE's EV/EBIT ratio is 7.4; this is 55.69% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, BKE's price/earnings ratio has gone down 1.9.
• Over the past 243 months, BKE's price/earnings ratio has gone down 1.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BKE.

BKE Growth Metrics

Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 20.61%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -51.24%.
• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at -25.41%.

BKE's revenue has moved up $347,016,000 over the prior 33 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-09-30	1,232.512	322.146	236.511
2021-06-30	1,164.085	314.721	215.929
2021-03-31	1,084.99	349.255	199.192
2020-12-31	901.278	227.42	130.139
2020-09-30	853.446	192.129	111.512
2020-06-30	826.562	144.288	95.861

BKE'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.

• BKE has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 99.78% of graded US stocks.
• BKE's asset turnover comes in at 1.296 -- ranking 104th of 165 Retail stocks.
• DKS, WSM, and KIRK are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with BKE.

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