Lakeland Financial Corporation (LKFN): Price and Financial Metrics

LKFN POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where LKFN ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 84.8% of US stocks.
• LKFN's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• LKFN ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 1st percentile.

LKFN Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 355.62, LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 93.12% of US stocks.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP is higher than it is for about just 0.48% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -100%, LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP's debt growth rate surpasses only 0% of about US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP are EGBN, PFHD, BSVN, ESQ, and PVBC.
• LKFN's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP's official web site, go to www.lakecitybank.com.

LKFN Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, LKFN's price/sales ratio is 575% higher, now standing at 8.1.
• LKFN's price/sales ratio has moved up 5.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LKFN.

LKFN Growth Metrics

The 3 year price growth rate now stands at 50.11%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 16.47%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 52.18%.

LKFN's revenue has moved up $13,379,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows LKFN's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	231.692	162.637	102.123
2022-06-30	224.591	145.862	97.717
2022-03-31	222.122	137.565	96.392
2021-12-31	221.731	113.768	95.733
2021-09-30	222.59	111.944	96.042
2021-06-30	218.313	105.553	94.699

LKFN'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.

• LKFN has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 43.11% of graded US stocks.
• LKFN's asset turnover comes in at 0.037 -- ranking 237th of 430 Banking stocks.
• FCBC, CBTX, and WBS are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LKFN.

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