Kirby Corporation (KEX): Price and Financial Metrics

KEX POWR Grades

• KEX scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 92.96% of US stocks.
• KEX's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 52 weeks.
• KEX's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 17% of US stocks).

KEX Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Kirby Corp's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 15.02% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for Kirby Corp comes in at -8.23%, a number that bests only 14.85% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• Kirby Corp's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 11.38%, greater than the shareholder yield of 83.24% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to KEX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are TDW, CVEO, UAMY, USNA, and ERF.
• 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

• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -12.63%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 32.71%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 42.93%.

KEX's revenue has moved down $592,554,000 over the prior 18 months.

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
2021-09-30	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
2020-06-30	2,507.821	565.76	-271.475

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.