Discover Financial Services (DFS): Price and Financial Metrics

DFS POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where DFS ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 63.75% of US stocks.
• DFS's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• DFS's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 1.75% of US stocks).

DFS Stock Summary

• DFS has a higher market value than 90.53% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $20,882,339,822.
• DFS's current price/earnings ratio is 5.95, which is higher than merely 9.64% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for DFS is currently 2.66, higher than just 9.71% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to DFS, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are HBAN, FITB, L, AIZ, and WBA.
• DFS's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES's official web site, go to www.discover.com.

DFS Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, DFS's price/earnings ratio is 36.84% lower, now standing at 6.
• Over the past 200 months, DFS's price/earnings ratio has gone down 6.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for DFS.

DFS Growth Metrics

The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 46.81%.
• The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 29.46%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -13.99%.

DFS's revenue has moved up $3.785e+09 over the prior 70 months.

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
2022-12-31	10,978	7,140	4,304
2022-09-30	10,802	6,307	4,339
2022-06-30	10,688	6,309	4,427
2022-03-31	11,457	6,245	5,010
2021-12-31	11,869	6,019	5,351
2021-09-30	11,489	6,310	5,084

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 62.91% of graded US stocks.
• DFS's asset turnover comes in at 0.103 -- ranking 47th of 430 Banking stocks.
• MRLN, FNMA, and SFST are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with DFS.

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