Canadian Solar Inc. - common shares (CSIQ): Price and Financial Metrics

CSIQ POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where CSIQ ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 91.45% of US stocks.
• CSIQ's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 51 weeks.
• CSIQ ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 12th percentile.

CSIQ Stock Summary

• For CSIQ, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 84.29% of US equities we're observing.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.62, Canadian Solar Inc has a higher such ratio than only 12.61% of stocks in our set.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for CSIQ comes in at -26.47% -- higher than that of just 10.7% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Canadian Solar Inc are EML, CSL, TNC, VERO, and CNMD.
• CSIQ's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Canadian Solar Inc's official web site, go to www.canadiansolar.com.

CSIQ Valuation Summary

• CSIQ's price/sales ratio is 0.6; this is 88.99% lower than that of the median Technology stock.
• CSIQ's price/earnings ratio has moved up 176.8 over the prior 180 months.
• Over the past 180 months, CSIQ's price/sales ratio has gone down 10.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CSIQ.

CSIQ Growth Metrics

• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 211.33%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -120.09%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -38.12%.

Over the past 24 months, CSIQ's revenue has gone down $268,017,000.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2020-12-31	3,476.495	-120.541	146.703
2019-12-31	3,200.583	600.111	171.585
2018-12-31	3,744.512	216.28	237.07
2017-12-31	3,390.393	203.92	99.572
2016-12-31	2,853.078	-278.073	65.249
2015-12-31	3,467.626	413.658	171.861

CSIQ'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.

• CSIQ has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 40.53% of graded US stocks.
• CSIQ's asset turnover comes in at 0.579 -- ranking 129th of 205 Electronic Equipment stocks.
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The table below shows CSIQ's key quality metrics over time.