Lakeland Financial Corporation (LKFN): Price and Financial Metrics

LKFN POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where LKFN ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 55.14% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LKFN is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 177 days.
• LKFN's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 2.64% of US stocks).

LKFN Stock Summary

• LKFN's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 91.68% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 34.68%, LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP's debt growth rate surpasses 81.06% of about US stocks.
• LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -30.41%, greater than the shareholder yield of just 14.83% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be SBFG, AUB, GNTY, MOFG, and USCB.
• Visit LKFN's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.lakecitybank.com.

LKFN Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, LKFN's price/sales ratio is 126.09% higher, now standing at 5.2.
• Over the past 243 months, LKFN's price/earnings ratio has gone down 0.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LKFN.

LKFN Growth Metrics

The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 258.29%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 7.4%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 50.11%.

Over the past 33 months, LKFN's revenue has gone up $34,883,000.

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.