Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (CPK): Price and Financial Metrics

CPK POWR Grades

• CPK scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 67.49% of US stocks.
• CPK's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 52 weeks.
• CPK's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 16.61% of US stocks).

CPK Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 167.33, Chesapeake Utilities Corp is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 84.47% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of Chesapeake Utilities Corp's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; only 0.35% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Chesapeake Utilities Corp is higher than it is for about 87.94% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Chesapeake Utilities Corp are BHR, PDM, OTTR, DEI, and AFIN.
• CPK's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Chesapeake Utilities Corp's official web site, go to www.chpk.com.

CPK Valuation Summary

• CPK's price/sales ratio is 4.3; this is 48.28% higher than that of the median Utilities stock.
• CPK's price/earnings ratio has moved up 15.8 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, CPK's price/sales ratio has gone up 4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CPK.

CPK Growth Metrics

• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 20.12%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 40.01%.
• The 2 year price growth rate now stands at 9.59%.

CPK's revenue has moved up $32,513,000 over the prior 15 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	540.726	201.454	79.892
2021-03-31	526.695	180.49	77.035
2020-12-31	488.198	158.916	71.498
2020-09-30	483.154	114.905	71.711
2020-06-30	474.361	120.067	68.071
2020-03-31	508.213	121.286	65.419

CPK'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.

• CPK has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 36.8% of graded US stocks.
• CPK's asset turnover comes in at 0.279 -- ranking 30th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• PNW, OKE, and AEP are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CPK.

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