Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTX): Price and Financial Metrics

MTX POWR Grades

• MTX scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 83.8% of US stocks.
• MTX's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 48 weeks.
• MTX's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 21.42% of US stocks).

MTX Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 82.08, Minerals Technologies Inc is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 73.92% of US stocks.
• Minerals Technologies Inc's stock had its IPO on October 26, 1992, making it an older stock than 79% of US equities in our set.
• For MTX, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 79.07% of US equities we're observing.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to MTX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are SWM, ESI, IART, EPC, and CNMD.
• Visit MTX's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.mineralstech.com.

MTX Valuation Summary

• MTX's price/sales ratio is 1.5; this is 34.78% lower than that of the median Basic Materials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, MTX's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 0.1.
• MTX's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.3 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MTX.

MTX Growth Metrics

• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 24.02%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -3.99%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -28.5%.

Over the past 33 months, MTX's revenue has gone down $64,000,000.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	1,728.3	264.5	141.2
2021-03-31	1,629.9	261.2	113.7
2020-12-31	1,594.8	240.6	112.4
2020-09-30	1,603.2	228.2	110.3
2020-06-30	1,664.2	234.1	120
2020-03-31	1,770.8	237.8	132.2

MTX'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.

• MTX has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 82.82% of graded US stocks.
• MTX's asset turnover comes in at 0.536 -- ranking 53rd of 90 Chemicals stocks.
• AXTA, PPG, and ALB are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with MTX.

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