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

DLA POWR Grades

• DLA scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 98.6% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for DLA is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• DLA ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 11th percentile.

DLA Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Delta Apparel Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.61% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.46, Delta Apparel Inc has a higher such ratio than merely 10.06% of stocks in our set.
• Over the past twelve months, DLA has reported earnings growth of -648.7%, putting it ahead of merely 3.33% of US stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to DLA, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are TILE, AFI, AVNT, PRA, and UVV.
• 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

• DLA's EV/EBIT ratio is 12.6; this is 24.55% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• DLA's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.1 over the prior 243 months.
• DLA's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 7.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for DLA.

DLA Growth Metrics

Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at -4.61%.
• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -16.38%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 1189.49%.

Over the past 34 months, DLA's revenue has gone up $43,156,000.

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
2021-12-31	452.773	14.756	23.057
2021-09-30	436.75	25.467	20.296
2021-06-30	438.699	20.807	18.411
2021-03-31	391.834	42.752	-7.531
2020-12-31	379.868	34.165	-10.618
2020-09-30	381.035	31.795	-10.577

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.