Casella Waste Systems, Inc. - (CWST): Price and Financial Metrics

CWST POWR Grades

• CWST scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 80.33% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CWST is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 178 days.
• CWST ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 21st percentile.

CWST Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 313.92, CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 92.14% of US stocks.
• With a price/earnings ratio of 82.19, CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC P/E ratio is greater than that of about 93.9% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, CWST is more volatile than only 20.22% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC, a group of peers worth examining would be MTZ, KEX, CWT, WRLD, and CBOE.
• Visit CWST's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.casella.com.

CWST Valuation Summary

• CWST's price/sales ratio is 4.2; this is 250% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, CWST's price/earnings ratio has gone up 86.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CWST.

CWST Growth Metrics

The 5 year price growth rate now stands at 278.4%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -51.97%.
• The 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 57.7%.

CWST's revenue has moved up $489,767,000 over the prior 70 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	1,054.797	201.079	53.803
2022-06-30	1,001.498	195.975	46.992
2022-03-31	933.707	175.304	40.979
2021-12-31	889.211	182.737	41.1
2021-09-30	847.616	162.096	94.872
2021-06-30	808.314	156.442	94.128

CWST'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.

• CWST has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 76.7% of graded US stocks.
• CWST's asset turnover comes in at 0.701 -- ranking 7th of 14 Almost Nothing stocks.
• RSG, HCCI, and WM are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CWST.

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