Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (LECO): Price and Financial Metrics

LECO POWR Grades

• LECO scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 94.95% of US stocks.
• LECO's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 169 days.
• LECO's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 42.5% of US stocks).

LECO Stock Summary

• Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 87.59% of US listed stocks.
• LECO's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 112.03 -- higher than 81.03% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, LECO is more volatile than only 5.41% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be OSK, VMI, ALLE, AMN, and PSMT.
• Visit LECO's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.lincolnelectric.com.

LECO Valuation Summary

• LECO's EV/EBIT ratio is 22.1; this is 1.14% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, LECO's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 12.3.
• Over the past 243 months, LECO's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 12.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LECO.

LECO Growth Metrics

Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 9.79%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 28.31%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at 60.58%.

LECO's revenue has moved up $323,915,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows LECO'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	3,083.723	390.926	267.117
2021-06-30	2,946.157	370.583	293.839
2021-03-31	2,710.43	374.652	224.73
2020-12-31	2,655.4	351.362	206.115
2020-09-30	2,697.913	338.08	204.753
2020-06-30	2,759.808	377.213	218.735

LECO'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.

• LECO has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 86.31% of graded US stocks.
• LECO's asset turnover comes in at 1.264 -- ranking 7th of 104 Machinery stocks.
• DE, DOV, and ZBRA are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LECO.

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