Kadant Inc (KAI): Price and Financial Metrics

KAI POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where KAI ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.51% of US stocks.
• KAI's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 47 weeks.
• KAI's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 45.67% of US stocks).

KAI Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 126.84, Kadant Inc is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 80.87% of US stocks.
• KAI's went public 28.88 years ago, making it older than 78.8% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• Of note is the ratio of Kadant Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 76.1% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Kadant Inc are AOUT, GOLF, PESI, OESX, and ENZ.
• KAI's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Kadant Inc's official web site, go to www.kadant.com.

KAI Valuation Summary

• KAI's price/sales ratio is 3.6; this is 100% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, KAI's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 20.5.
• Over the past 243 months, KAI's price/sales ratio has gone up 2.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for KAI.

KAI Growth Metrics

• Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 23.35%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 7.46%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 62.21%.

KAI's revenue has moved up $303,602,000 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows KAI's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	691.315	128.154	70.483
2021-03-31	648.364	105.807	59.226
2020-12-31	635.028	92.884	55.196
2020-09-30	649.256	91.848	47.738
2020-06-30	668.15	93.133	49.002
2020-03-31	692.455	93.706	53.699

KAI'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.

• KAI has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 94.59% of graded US stocks.
• KAI's asset turnover comes in at 0.726 -- ranking 47th of 104 Machinery stocks.
• PFIN, JBT, and GGG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with KAI.

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