Lancaster Colony Corporation (LANC): Price and Financial Metrics

LANC POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where LANC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 96.2% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LANC is in Momentum, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• LANC's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 11.73% of US stocks).

LANC Stock Summary

• Lancaster Colony Corp's stock had its IPO on March 26, 1990, making it an older stock than 84.38% of US equities in our set.
• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for LANC is currently 33.55, higher than 83.45% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Lancaster Colony Corp is higher than it is for about merely 12.52% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Lancaster Colony Corp are FHI, INUV, TAYD, MMI, and AIR.
• LANC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Lancaster Colony Corp's official web site, go to www.lancastercolony.com.

LANC Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, LANC's price/sales ratio is 22.22% higher, now standing at 3.3.
• LANC's price/sales ratio has moved up 2.2 over the prior 243 months.
• LANC's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 17.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LANC.

LANC Growth Metrics

Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 9.82%.
• The 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 26.71%.
• The 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 19.61%.

Over the past 52 months, LANC's revenue has gone up $353,901,000.

The table below shows LANC'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	1,563.298	125.313	125.648
2021-09-30	1,509.886	149.374	135.908
2021-06-30	1,467.067	174.189	142.332
2021-03-31	1,402.355	190.33	140.991
2020-12-31	1,366.469	156.246	134.523
2020-09-30	1,346.571	154.317	133.317

LANC'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.

• LANC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 68.06% of graded US stocks.
• LANC's asset turnover comes in at 1.392 -- ranking 14th of 59 Food Products stocks.
• FLO, BRID, and LNDC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LANC.

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