Deluxe Corporation (DLX): Price and Financial Metrics

DLX POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where DLX ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.94% of US stocks.
• DLX's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• DLX's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 17.71% of US stocks).

DLX Stock Summary

• DLX's went public 35.69 years ago, making it older than 92.44% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.3, DELUXE CORP has a higher such ratio than only 9.95% of stocks in our set.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for DLX comes in at 13.64% -- higher than that of 87% 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 LCUT, RUSHA, TILE, LE, and MOD.
• Visit DLX's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.deluxe.com.

DLX Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, DLX's price/earnings ratio is 24.41% lower, now standing at 9.6.
• Over the past 243 months, DLX's price/earnings ratio has gone down 2.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for DLX.

DLX Growth Metrics

Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -64.88%.
• The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 6.57%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -65.16%.

DLX's revenue has moved up $241,938,000 over the prior 34 months.

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
2022-12-31	2,238.01	191.531	65.395
2022-09-30	2,244.581	185.01	60.208
2022-06-30	2,221.684	199.197	57.947
2022-03-31	2,136.947	205.505	47.985
2021-12-31	2,022.197	210.821	62.633
2021-09-30	1,906.114	199.971	73.519

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.