Danaos Corporation (DAC): Price and Financial Metrics

DAC POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where DAC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 97.52% of US stocks.
• DAC's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• DAC's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 9.46% of US stocks).

DAC Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 2.55, DANAOS CORP P/E ratio is greater than that of about only 2.4% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -56.83%, DANAOS CORP's debt growth rate surpasses merely 4.53% of about US stocks.
• DANAOS CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 53.02%, greater than the shareholder yield of 96.52% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to DANAOS CORP are PAA, AIV, CLDT, USDP, and DRH.
• Visit DAC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.danaos.com.

DAC Valuation Summary

• DAC's price/earnings ratio is 2.5; this is 86.56% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• DAC's price/sales ratio has moved down 5.8 over the prior 198 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for DAC.

DAC Growth Metrics

The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 757%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 132.38%.
• Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 7607.95%.

Over the past 15 months, DAC's revenue has gone up $438,773,000.

The table below shows DAC'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	955.899	921.215	572.486
2022-06-30	891.777	855.846	722.913
2022-03-31	787.288	459.317	1,087.526
2021-12-31	689.505	428.111	1,052.841
2021-09-30	594.109	375.787	930.023
2021-06-30	517.126	341.554	755.582

DAC'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.

• DAC has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 87.39% of graded US stocks.
• DAC's asset turnover comes in at 0.174 -- ranking 107th of 137 Transportation stocks.
• HTLD, HUBG, and KNOP are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with DAC.

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