Nordson Corporation (NDSN): Price and Financial Metrics

NDSN POWR Grades

• NDSN scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 97.33% of US stocks.
• NDSN's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• NDSN's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 13.39% of US stocks).

NDSN Stock Summary

• NDSN's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 470.45 -- higher than 93.08% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• Of note is the ratio of NORDSON CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 87.28% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, NDSN is more volatile than only 9.33% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to NDSN, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are IEX, FIVE, DCI, J, and SNA.
• Visit NDSN's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.nordson.com.

NDSN Valuation Summary

• NDSN's price/sales ratio is 5.2; this is 173.68% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• NDSN's price/earnings ratio has moved down 21.9 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NDSN.

NDSN Growth Metrics

Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 9.56%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -3.62%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -9.32%.

NDSN's revenue has moved up $421,998,000 over the prior 34 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	2,591.589	518.381	496.955
2022-09-30	2,590.278	513.131	513.103
2022-06-30	2,505.944	510.162	482.314
2022-03-31	2,490.674	512.714	482.685
2021-12-31	2,444.809	520.725	497.195
2021-09-30	2,362.209	545.927	454.368

NDSN'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.

• NDSN has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 97.07% of graded US stocks.
• NDSN's asset turnover comes in at 0.635 -- ranking 63rd of 104 Machinery stocks.
• CVR, MIDD, and DCI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NDSN.

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