Deluxe Corporation (DLX): Price and Financial Metrics

DLX POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where DLX ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 89.36% of US stocks.
• DLX's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving up over the last 26 weeks.
• DLX's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 28.46% of US stocks).

DLX Stock Summary

• DLX's went public 35.4 years ago, making it older than 92.46% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.36, DELUXE CORP has a higher such ratio than only 12.04% of stocks in our set.
• DELUXE CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 19.27%, greater than the shareholder yield of 91.4% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to DLX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are TILE, IBP, PGTI, THRY, and MTW.
• 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

• DLX's price/sales ratio is 0.4; this is 50% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• DLX's price/earnings ratio has moved up 1.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for DLX.

DLX Growth Metrics

The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at 7.06%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -18.64%.
• The year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -48.53%.

Over the past 33 months, DLX's revenue has gone up $235,866,000.

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
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
2021-06-30	1,813.434	191.715	90.472

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.