Ingles Markets, Incorporated - (IMKTA): Price and Financial Metrics

IMKTA POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where IMKTA ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 95.85% of US stocks.
• IMKTA's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• IMKTA ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 31st percentile.

IMKTA Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for IMKTA is 4.95 -- better than 91.99% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of Ingles Markets Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 96.62% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• IMKTA's price/sales ratio is 0.34; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 6.58% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to IMKTA, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are BRID, BSET, AHPI, HFFG, and ELA.
• Visit IMKTA's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.ingles-markets.com.

IMKTA Valuation Summary

• IMKTA's price/sales ratio is 0.3; this is 78.57% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• IMKTA's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.2 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, IMKTA's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.2.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for IMKTA.

IMKTA Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 83.09%.
• Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 7.12%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 1991.66%.

IMKTA's revenue has moved up $1,030,868,760 over the prior 34 months.

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
2021-12-31	5,189.006	343.5009	262.0964
2021-09-30	4,987.92	306.2967	249.7315
2021-06-30	4,849.635	335.0789	235.8563
2021-03-31	4,761.77	289.4425	226.6349
2020-12-31	4,722.697	391.6417	214.7382
2020-09-30	4,610.609	350.1171	178.6014

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.