Investar Holding Corporation (ISTR): Price and Financial Metrics

ISTR POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where ISTR ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 96.59% of US stocks.
• ISTR's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• ISTR ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 6th percentile.

ISTR Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 4.52, INVESTAR HOLDING CORP P/E ratio is greater than that of about merely 5.72% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• ISTR's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 94.34% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for ISTR comes in at 66.94% -- higher than that of 96.92% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to INVESTAR HOLDING CORP are MOFG, BWB, BFST, CBAN, and SMMF.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, ISTR's price/earnings ratio is 52.63% lower, now standing at 4.5.
• Over the past 114 months, ISTR's price/earnings ratio has gone down 25.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for ISTR.

ISTR Growth Metrics

Its 3 year price growth rate is now at -15.25%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 142.28%.
• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 74.49%.

Over the past 15 months, ISTR's revenue has gone up $16,243,000.

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.