Ingles Markets Inc. Cl A (IMKTA): Price and Financial Metrics

IMKTA POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where IMKTA ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 96.25% of US stocks.
• IMKTA's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• IMKTA's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 1.86% of US stocks).

IMKTA Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of INGLES MARKETS INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 97.14% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• IMKTA's price/sales ratio is 0.27; that's higher than the P/S ratio of just 9.46% of US stocks.
• The volatility of INGLES MARKETS INC's share price is greater than that of merely 8.51% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to INGLES MARKETS INC, a group of peers worth examining would be BDL, ETD, FANH, CIX, and VSH.
• IMKTA's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit INGLES MARKETS INC's official web site, go to www.ingles-markets.com.

IMKTA Valuation Summary

• IMKTA's price/earnings ratio is 6.4; this is 70.16% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• IMKTA's price/earnings ratio has moved down 9.6 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for IMKTA.

IMKTA Growth Metrics

The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 2274.94%.
• The 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 105.53%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 13.02%.

Over the past 15 months, IMKTA's revenue has gone up $792,700,026.

The table below shows IMKTA'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	5,780.62	301.783	275.9414
2022-09-30	5,678.835	339.4985	272.7589
2022-06-30	5,562.272	353.9755	274.3372
2022-03-31	5,381.57	347.0945	278.5487
2021-12-31	5,189.006	343.5009	262.0964
2021-09-30	4,987.92	306.2967	249.7315

IMKTA'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.

• IMKTA has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 88.93% of graded US stocks.
• IMKTA's asset turnover comes in at 2.422 -- ranking 27th of 165 Retail stocks.
• APRN, LITB, and TGT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with IMKTA.

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