Investar Holding Corporation (ISTR): Price and Financial Metrics

ISTR POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where ISTR ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 90.76% of US stocks.
• ISTR's strongest trending metric is Sentiment; it's been moving down over the last 28 days.
• ISTR's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 31.79% of US stocks).

ISTR Stock Summary

• ISTR's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 92.49% of US stocks.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for Investar Holding Corp comes in at -2.01%, a number that bests only 15.57% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• Investar Holding Corp's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 25.96%, greater than the shareholder yield of 93.62% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to ISTR, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are BFST, EFSC, AMNB, EQBK, and AUB.
• Visit ISTR's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.investarbank.com.

ISTR Valuation Summary

• ISTR's price/sales ratio is 2.7; this is 125% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 87 months, ISTR's price/sales ratio has gone down 1.3.
• ISTR's price/earnings ratio has moved down 18.4 over the prior 87 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for ISTR.

ISTR Growth Metrics

Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -20%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 52.97%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 76.61%.

ISTR's revenue has moved up $34,993,000 over the prior 70 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
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
2021-03-31	81.405	26.42	18.641
2020-12-31	74.47	17.749	13.889
2020-09-30	71.845	16.118	12.68

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.