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

LECO POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where LECO ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 92.48% of US stocks.
• LECO's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• LECO's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 53.2% 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 87.95% of US listed stocks.
• With a one year PEG ratio of 138.64, Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 82.98% of US stocks.
• The volatility of Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc's share price is greater than that of only 5.46% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to LECO, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are FCN, FIVE, THG, HLNE, and ALLE.
• 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

The 3 year price growth rate now stands at 38.99%.
• The year over year revenue growth rate now stands at -8%.
• The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 20.88%.

LECO's revenue has moved up $204,028,000 over the prior 34 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
2021-12-31	3,234.18	365.063	276.466
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

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.