The Middleby Corporation (MIDD): Price and Financial Metrics

MIDD POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where MIDD ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 60.09% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for MIDD is in Value, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• MIDD's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 8.85% of US stocks).

MIDD Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of MIDDLEBY Corp's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 99.06% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 39.59%, MIDDLEBY Corp's debt growth rate surpasses 81.17% of about US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, MIDD is more volatile than only 10.39% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to MIDDLEBY Corp are MGPI, TRS, RE, TEX, and TREC.
• Visit MIDD's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.middleby.com.

MIDD Valuation Summary

• MIDD's price/sales ratio is 3.5; this is 6.06% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• MIDD's price/sales ratio has moved up 3 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, MIDD's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 18.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MIDD.

MIDD Growth Metrics

The 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 42.44%.
• Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 584.33%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 17.96%.

MIDD's revenue has moved up $679,205,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows MIDD'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	3,250.792	423.399	488.492
2021-09-30	3,113.672	554.643	437.651
2021-06-30	2,930.652	532.406	322.201
2021-03-31	2,593.856	497.343	222.778
2020-12-31	2,513.257	524.785	207.294
2020-09-30	2,571.587	463.863	264.454

MIDD'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.

• MIDD has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 74.94% of graded US stocks.
• MIDD's asset turnover comes in at 0.56 -- ranking 76th of 104 Machinery stocks.
• SXI, TRT, and WBT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with MIDD.

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