Clearfield, Inc. (CLFD): Price and Financial Metrics

CLFD POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where CLFD ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 59.88% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CLFD is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 178 days.
• CLFD's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 2.04% of US stocks).

CLFD Stock Summary

• CLEARFIELD INC's stock had its IPO on August 7, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.92% of US equities in our set.
• The price/operating cash flow metric for CLEARFIELD INC is higher than 98.87% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 917.28%, CLEARFIELD INC's debt growth rate surpasses 98% of about US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to CLEARFIELD INC are HURC, ROCK, WIRE, BFRI, and GDOT.
• CLFD's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit CLEARFIELD INC's official web site, go to www.seeclearfield.com.

CLFD Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Technology stock, CLFD's price/sales ratio is 4.17% higher, now standing at 2.5.
• CLFD's price/sales ratio has moved down 91.9 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CLFD.

CLFD Growth Metrics

The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at 120.18%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 56.69%.
• The 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -182.73%.

Over the past 15 months, CLFD's revenue has gone up $164,960,601.

The table below shows CLFD'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	305.716	2.138	53.228
2022-09-30	270.883	1.001	49.362
2022-06-30	221.09	-6.503318	39.79604
2022-03-31	188.5753	-7.07881	33.14916
2021-12-31	164.7723	8.15218	27.55294
2021-09-30	140.7554	10.90284	20.32738

CLFD'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.

• CLFD has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 76.89% of graded US stocks.
• CLFD's asset turnover comes in at 1.2 -- ranking 31st of 208 Electronic Equipment stocks.
• SMTC, KVHI, and NXPI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CLFD.

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