Deluxe Corporation (DLX): Price and Financial Metrics

DLX POWR Grades

• DLX scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 91.47% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for DLX is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• DLX's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 24.19% of US stocks).

DLX Stock Summary

• Deluxe Corp's stock had its IPO on July 23, 1987, making it an older stock than 91.68% of US equities in our set.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 100.31%, Deluxe Corp's debt growth rate surpasses 89.91% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for DLX comes in at -58.46% -- higher than that of only 7.54% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Deluxe Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be ALG, STRR, ICFI, RUSHA, and KWR.
• DLX's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Deluxe Corp's official web site, go to www.deluxe.com.

DLX Valuation Summary

• DLX's price/earnings ratio is 18.7; this is 3.61% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• DLX's price/earnings ratio has moved up 5.4 over the prior 243 months.
• DLX's price/sales ratio has moved down 1.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for DLX.

DLX Growth Metrics

Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -227.41%.
• Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 1.34%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 11.49%.

Over the past 34 months, DLX's revenue has gone up $17,022,000.

The table below shows DLX'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	2,022.197	210.821	62.633
2021-09-30	1,906.114	199.971	73.519
2021-06-30	1,813.434	191.715	90.472
2021-03-31	1,745.623	238.58	93.231
2020-12-31	1,790.781	217.553	8.808
2020-09-30	1,858.359	245.44	28.969

DLX'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.

• DLX has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 65.54% of graded US stocks.
• DLX's asset turnover comes in at 0.825 -- ranking 5th of 14 Printing and Publishing stocks.
• JW.A, NYT, and NWSA are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with DLX.

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