Lazard LTD. (LAZ): Price and Financial Metrics

LAZ POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where LAZ ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 90.5% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LAZ is in Value, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• LAZ's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 6.59% of US stocks).

LAZ Stock Summary

• Lazard Ltd's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 85.47% of US listed stocks.
• LAZ's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 86.32% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for LAZ comes in at 14.54% -- higher than that of 88.35% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Lazard Ltd are ARCB, BGFV, KIRK, VRTV, and DXLG.
• Visit LAZ's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.lazard.com.

LAZ Valuation Summary

• LAZ's price/sales ratio is 1.8; this is 43.75% lower than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• LAZ's price/earnings ratio has moved up 7.4 over the prior 198 months.
• Over the past 198 months, LAZ's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LAZ.

LAZ Growth Metrics

Its year over year price growth rate is now at 79.33%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -74.58%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -33.05%.

LAZ's revenue has moved up $783,723,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows LAZ'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	3,193.048	866.079	528.064
2021-09-30	3,078.827	733.749	507.576
2021-06-30	2,939.076	591.312	475.459
2021-03-31	2,688.231	608.567	425.739
2020-12-31	2,566.138	575.931	402.461
2020-09-30	2,409.325	614.95	289.549

LAZ'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.

• LAZ has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 90.82% of graded US stocks.
• LAZ's asset turnover comes in at 0.486 -- ranking 44th of 444 Trading stocks.
• WHG, COR, and LAMR are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LAZ.

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