Chemed Corp (CHE): Price and Financial Metrics

CHE POWR Grades

• CHE scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 95.22% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CHE is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• CHE ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 4th percentile.

CHE Stock Summary

• CHEMED CORP's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 93.61% of US equities in our set.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -38.15%, CHEMED CORP's debt growth rate surpasses just 8.12% of about US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, CHE is more volatile than merely 11.66% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to CHEMED CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be MEI, NVEE, MLI, G, and JHG.
• Visit CHE's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.chemed.com.

CHE Valuation Summary

• CHE's price/earnings ratio is 33.7; this is 39.83% higher than that of the median Healthcare stock.
• CHE's price/earnings ratio has moved up 130.3 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CHE.

CHE Growth Metrics

Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -4.42%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at 3.1%.
• The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at 25.12%.

CHE's revenue has moved up $3,391,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows CHE'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	2,134.963	309.886	249.624
2022-09-30	2,129.287	273.257	262.123
2022-06-30	2,141.482	334.228	277.253
2022-03-31	2,142.45	302.968	267.319
2021-12-31	2,139.261	308.597	268.55
2021-09-30	2,131.572	331.904	307.677

CHE'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.

• CHE has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 96.99% of graded US stocks.
• CHE's asset turnover comes in at 1.524 -- ranking 7th of 81 Healthcare stocks.
• NTRA, RDNT, and VCYT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CHE.

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