Delta Apparel, Inc. (DLA): Price and Financial Metrics

DLA POWR Grades

• DLA scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 62.06% of US stocks.
• DLA's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• DLA ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 5th percentile.

DLA Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of DELTA APPAREL INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 87.44% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• DLA's price/sales ratio is 0.16; that's higher than the P/S ratio of just 4.53% of US stocks.
• DELTA APPAREL INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -39.14%, greater than the shareholder yield of only 12.5% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to DELTA APPAREL INC, a group of peers worth examining would be MGRC, UVV, HBB, ITP, and PGTI.
• Visit DLA's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.deltaapparelinc.com.

DLA Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, DLA's price/earnings ratio is 205.97% lower, now standing at -14.2.
• Over the past 243 months, DLA's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for DLA.

DLA Growth Metrics

The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 1.49%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -76.02%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 21.61%.

DLA's revenue has moved up $85,958,000 over the prior 52 months.

The table below shows DLA'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	481.408	-18.839	12.529
2022-09-30	484.859	-20.115	19.74
2022-06-30	484.054	1.042	26.875
2022-03-31	475.845	10.253	28.796
2021-12-31	452.773	14.756	23.057
2021-09-30	436.75	25.467	20.296

DLA'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.

• DLA has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 12.31% of graded US stocks.
• DLA's asset turnover comes in at 1.037 -- ranking 76th of 105 Wholesale stocks.
• CHEF, MSM, and PFGC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with DLA.

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