Discover Financial Services (DFS): Price and Financial Metrics

DFS POWR Grades

• DFS scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 58.92% of US stocks.
• DFS's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• DFS ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 20th percentile.

DFS Stock Summary

• DFS has a higher market value than 91.31% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $24,320,612,940.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 8.48 for DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES; that's greater than it is for 87.28% of US stocks.
• The volatility of DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES's share price is greater than that of just 12.77% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES are CCEP, MT, MTB, CHD, and NTRS.
• 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

• DFS's price/sales ratio is 2.2; this is 120% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 192 months, DFS's price/sales ratio has gone down 1.

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.