National Fuel Gas Company (NFG): Price and Financial Metrics

NFG POWR Grades

• NFG scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 85.88% of US stocks.
• NFG's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 48 weeks.
• NFG's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 10.82% of US stocks).

NFG Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 203.47, National Fuel Gas Co is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 86.56% of US stocks.
• National Fuel Gas Co's stock had its IPO on September 1, 1987, making it an older stock than 91.4% of US equities in our set.
• Of note is the ratio of National Fuel Gas Co's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 0.42% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to NFG, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are NOMD, OGE, CUZ, ENLC, and SWX.
• Visit NFG's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to investor.nationalfuelgas.com.

NFG Valuation Summary

• NFG's EV/EBIT ratio is 22.9; this is 26.17% higher than that of the median Energy stock.
• NFG's price/earnings ratio has moved up 25.1 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, NFG's price/sales ratio has gone up 2.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NFG.

NFG Growth Metrics

• The 2 year price growth rate now stands at -23.16%.
• The 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -12.76%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -27.93%.

Over the past 70 months, NFG's revenue has gone down $86,251,000.

The table below shows NFG'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	1,674.662	788.749	131.14
2021-03-31	1,603.284	766.95	85.915
2020-12-31	1,543.264	777.803	-132.589
2020-09-30	1,546.291	740.809	-123.772
2020-06-30	1,551.643	747.798	69.054
2020-03-31	1,585.824	744.64	91.557

NFG'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.

• NFG has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 85.88% of graded US stocks.
• NFG's asset turnover comes in at 0.236 -- ranking 41st of 105 Utilities stocks.
• OTTR, UTL, and ALE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NFG.

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