Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (LEE): Price and Financial Metrics

LEE POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where LEE ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 99.55% of US stocks.
• LEE's strongest trending metric is Sentiment; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• LEE ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 37th percentile.

LEE Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for LEE is 12.89 -- better than 97.8% of US stocks.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.21, LEE ENTERPRISES Inc has a higher such ratio than merely 2.94% of stocks in our set.
• LEE's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 99.1% of US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to LEE ENTERPRISES Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be WU, UTME, SBH, ALTG, and HY.
• Visit LEE's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.lee.net.

LEE Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, LEE's price/earnings ratio is 55.15% lower, now standing at 8.7.
• Over the past 243 months, LEE's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 5.9.
• Over the past 243 months, LEE's price/sales ratio has gone down 3.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LEE.

LEE Growth Metrics

Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -45.22%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -47.05%.
• The 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -84.52%.

Over the past 52 months, LEE's revenue has gone up $218,172,000.

The table below shows LEE'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	785.115	32.277	19.541
2021-09-30	794.649	50.078	22.785
2021-06-30	792.503	54.63	16.209
2021-03-31	778.541	78.424	11.707
2020-12-31	707.478	57.879	7.474
2020-09-30	618.004	49.869	-3.106

LEE'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.

• LEE has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 82.05% of graded US stocks.
• LEE's asset turnover comes in at 0.936 -- ranking 3rd of 14 Printing and Publishing stocks.
• DJCO, HMHC, and GCI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LEE.

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