Fresenius Medical Care AG (FMS): Price and Financial Metrics

FMS POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where FMS ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 70.19% of US stocks.
• FMS's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 161 days.
• FMS ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 0th percentile.

FMS Stock Summary

• With a price/sales ratio of 0.45, FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO KGAA has a higher such ratio than only 15.27% of stocks in our set.
• As for revenue growth, note that FMS's revenue has grown -8.95% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of only 13.78% of US companies in our set.
• FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO KGAA's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 18.88%, greater than the shareholder yield of 89.34% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO KGAA are ICL, NTWK, ALPP, CO, and CSL.
• Visit FMS's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.freseniusmedicalcare.com.

FMS Valuation Summary

• FMS's price/sales ratio is 1.3; this is 88.55% lower than that of the median Healthcare stock.
• FMS's price/earnings ratio has moved up 12.4 over the prior 243 months.
• FMS's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.8 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for FMS.

FMS Growth Metrics

Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 68.83%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at -3.5%.
• The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at -7.66%.

Over the past 18 months, FMS's revenue has gone down $1,207,128,221.

The table below shows FMS'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	20,021.23	2,489.498	1,101.486
2021-09-30	20,199.78	2,404.636	1,067.152
2021-06-30	20,404.96	2,458.608	1,174.364
2021-03-31	21,182.4	3,856.737	1,362.173
2020-12-31	21,647.35	4,233.156	1,411.366
2020-09-30	21,222.2	4,419.68	1,564.352

FMS'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.

• FMS has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 82.76% of graded US stocks.
• FMS's asset turnover comes in at 0.553 -- ranking 46th of 81 Healthcare stocks.
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The table below shows FMS's key quality metrics over time.