Liquidity Services, Inc. (LQDT): Price and Financial Metrics

LQDT POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where LQDT ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.32% of US stocks.
• LQDT's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• LQDT ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 31st percentile.

LQDT Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 4.38, Liquidity Services Inc is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than just 19.73% of US stocks.
• For LQDT, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by merely 15.78% of US equities we're observing.
• Over the past twelve months, LQDT has reported earnings growth of 316.39%, putting it ahead of 93.27% of US stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to LQDT, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are CMBM, CYBE, SEAC, RIGL, and VICR.
• LQDT's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Liquidity Services Inc's official web site, go to www.liquidityservices.com.

LQDT Valuation Summary

• LQDT's price/sales ratio is 3.7; this is 32.11% lower than that of the median Technology stock.
• Over the past 189 months, LQDT's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.5.
• LQDT's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.5 over the prior 189 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LQDT.

LQDT Growth Metrics

Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 1.44%.
• The 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -64.42%.
• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 59.88%.

LQDT's revenue has moved down $53,306,000 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows LQDT'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	268.486	61.25	50.037
2021-09-30	257.531	65.417	50.949
2021-06-30	243.093	61.548	23.64
2021-03-31	221.149	59.93	15.434
2020-12-31	212.187	41.119	5.936
2020-09-30	205.94	16.478	-3.774

LQDT'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.

• LQDT has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 99.12% of graded US stocks.
• LQDT's asset turnover comes in at 1.133 -- ranking 101st of 563 Business Services stocks.
• ZEN, ETSY, and PIRS are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LQDT.

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