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 74.51% of US stocks.
• CWST's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• CWST's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 21.02% of US stocks).

CWST Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for CWST is 2.1 -- better than 75.86% of US stocks.
• With a one year PEG ratio of 356.99, 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 92.96% of US stocks.
• CWST's current price/earnings ratio is 109.45, which is higher than 94.21% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Casella Waste Systems Inc are OIS, RNGR, EEX, MCB, 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

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, CWST's price/sales ratio is 161.11% higher, now standing at 4.7.
• Over the past 243 months, CWST's price/sales ratio has gone up 4.1.
• Over the past 243 months, CWST's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 69.2.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CWST.

CWST Growth Metrics

Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 581.12%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 44.77%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 403.64%.

Over the past 15 months, CWST's revenue has gone up $121,247,000.

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
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
2021-03-31	781.206	157.278	94.458
2020-12-31	774.584	139.922	91.106
2020-09-30	767.964	157.249	37.255

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.