Deluxe Corporation (DLX): Price and Financial Metrics

DLX POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where DLX ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 87.35% of US stocks.
• DLX's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• DLX's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 29.29% of US stocks).

DLX Stock Summary

• DELUXE CORP's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 85.93% of US listed stocks.
• DELUXE CORP's stock had its IPO on July 23, 1987, making it an older stock than 91.94% of US equities in our set.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.37, DELUXE CORP has a higher such ratio than merely 13.16% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to DLX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are MWA, FLO, MATW, ESAB, and IBP.
• 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 Communication Services stock, DLX's price/earnings ratio is 58.26% higher, now standing at 27.3.
• Over the past 243 months, DLX's price/earnings ratio has gone up 17.4.

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.