Kirby Corporation (KEX): Price and Financial Metrics

KEX POWR Grades

• KEX scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 98.88% of US stocks.
• KEX's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• KEX ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 26th percentile.

KEX Stock Summary

• KEX's went public 30.63 years ago, making it older than 83.27% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• Of note is the ratio of Kirby Corp's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 14.51% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -18.49%, Kirby Corp's debt growth rate surpasses only 20.95% of about US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Kirby Corp are DXC, USNA, TDW, TIPT, and ARLP.
• Visit KEX's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.kirbycorp.com.

KEX Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, KEX's price/sales ratio is 11.11% lower, now standing at 1.6.
• KEX's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.5 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, KEX's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 40.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for KEX.

KEX Growth Metrics

The year over year revenue growth rate now stands at -26.06%.
• The 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -55.68%.
• The year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 128.62%.

Over the past 18 months, KEX's revenue has gone down $261,161,000.

The table below shows KEX'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	2,246.66	321.576	-246.954
2021-09-30	2,145.15	365.539	-235.711
2021-06-30	2,042.797	400.614	56.508
2021-03-31	2,024.332	475.997	71.32
2020-12-31	2,171.408	444.94	-272.546
2020-09-30	2,337.579	483.977	-291.973

KEX'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.

• KEX has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 45.19% of graded US stocks.
• KEX's asset turnover comes in at 0.348 -- ranking 60th of 137 Transportation stocks.
• GATX, AIRT, and YELL are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with KEX.

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