Discover Financial Services (DFS): Price and Financial Metrics

DFS POWR Grades

• DFS scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 90.13% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for DFS is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 51 weeks.
• DFS's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 57.7% of US stocks).

DFS Stock Summary

• DFS has a market capitalization of $37,978,587,561 -- more than approximately 92.73% of US stocks.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, Discover Financial Services is reporting a growth rate of 363.28%; that's higher than 93.39% of US stocks.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for Discover Financial Services comes in at 83.9%, a number that bests 92.35% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to DFS, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are AFL, SLF, WBA, ALL, and ITUB.
• Visit DFS's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.discover.com.

DFS Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, DFS's price/earnings ratio is 27.27% lower, now standing at 8.
• DFS's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.3 over the prior 173 months.
• Over the past 173 months, DFS's price/earnings ratio has gone down 4.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for DFS.

DFS Growth Metrics

• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -5.01%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 84.41%.
• The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 7.7%.

Over the past 49 months, DFS's revenue has gone up $3,693,000,000.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	10,861	5,985	4,780
2021-03-31	8,033	6,024	2,723
2020-12-31	5,954	6,196	1,104
2020-09-30	5,769	6,027	1,009
2020-06-30	5,906	5,550	1,007
2020-03-31	7,355	5,541	2,123

DFS'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.

• DFS has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 60.67% of graded US stocks.
• DFS's asset turnover comes in at 0.094 -- ranking 50th of 433 Banking stocks.
• MRLN, SASR, and COF are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with DFS.

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