CRA International,Inc. (CRAI): Price and Financial Metrics

CRAI POWR Grades

• CRAI scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 93.37% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CRAI is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• CRAI ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 32nd percentile.

CRAI Stock Summary

• Cra International Inc's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 82.02% of US listed stocks.
• With a price/sales ratio of 1.14, Cra International Inc has a higher such ratio than 26.56% of stocks in our set.
• Cra International Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 7.46%, greater than the shareholder yield of 79.66% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Cra International Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be SCSC, FORR, PCYG, GBL, and UNTY.
• CRAI's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Cra International Inc's official web site, go to www.crai.com.

CRAI Valuation Summary

• CRAI's price/sales ratio is 1.2; this is 29.41% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• CRAI's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 6.7 over the prior 243 months.
• CRAI's price/earnings ratio has moved down 1.8 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CRAI.

CRAI Growth Metrics

Its 2 year price growth rate is now at -25.62%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -41.84%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 208.86%.

Over the past 52 months, CRAI's revenue has gone up $213,305,000.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	565.933	75.698	41.679
2021-09-30	568.589	79.218	39.717
2021-06-30	553.939	62.74	34.175
2021-03-31	528.733	80.19	28.54
2020-12-31	508.373	54.663	24.507
2020-09-30	490.213	37.087	22.565

CRAI'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.

• CRAI has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 81.89% of graded US stocks.
• CRAI's asset turnover comes in at 1.014 -- ranking 10th of 50 Personal Services stocks.
• MNRO, STON, and CAR are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CRAI.

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