Investar Holding Corporation (ISTR): Price and Financial Metrics

ISTR POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where ISTR ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 97.77% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for ISTR is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• ISTR's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 19.66% of US stocks).

ISTR Stock Summary

• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, INVESTAR HOLDING CORP is reporting a growth rate of 496.39%; that's higher than 96.56% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, ISTR is more volatile than only 1.83% of stocks we're observing.
• INVESTAR HOLDING CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -114.19%, greater than the shareholder yield of just 5.13% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to ISTR, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are AMTB, FSBC, MCBS, BFST, and OPHC.
• ISTR's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit INVESTAR HOLDING CORP's official web site, go to www.investarbank.com.

ISTR Valuation Summary

• ISTR's price/sales ratio is 2.1; this is 75% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 104 months, ISTR's price/sales ratio has gone down 1.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for ISTR.

ISTR Growth Metrics

The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at 77.27%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at -15.25%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -45.13%.

ISTR's revenue has moved up $16,243,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows ISTR'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	103.011	38.408	33.747
2022-06-30	81.79	34.102	16.459
2022-03-31	79.508	44.238	12.743
2021-12-31	72.971	33.481	8
2021-09-30	70.91	35.083	5.604
2021-06-30	86.768	34.728	20.055

ISTR'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.

• ISTR has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 53.51% of graded US stocks.
• ISTR's asset turnover comes in at 0.028 -- ranking 398th of 428 Banking stocks.
• FNWD, ICBK, and GNTY are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with ISTR.

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