Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NGVC): Price and Financial Metrics

NGVC POWR Grades

• NGVC scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 97.08% of US stocks.
• NGVC's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• NGVC ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 32nd percentile.

NGVC Stock Summary

• Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 95.44% of US listed stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 84.67% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• NGVC's price/sales ratio is 0.41; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 8.69% of US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be IMKTA, SPWH, VLGEA, ELA, and XPEL.
• Visit NGVC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.naturalgrocers.com.

NGVC Valuation Summary

• NGVC's price/sales ratio is 0.3; this is 78.57% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• NGVC's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.9 over the prior 111 months.
• NGVC's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 9.5 over the prior 111 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NGVC.

NGVC Growth Metrics

Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 101.48%.
• The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 96.48%.
• The 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 424.54%.

Over the past 34 months, NGVC's revenue has gone up $185,146,000.

The table below shows NGVC'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	1,067.759	53.596	25.864
2021-09-30	1,055.516	53.88	20.581
2021-06-30	1,047.045	36.059	17.1
2021-03-31	1,053.531	30.448	16.759
2020-12-31	1,071.857	68.366	21.773
2020-09-30	1,036.842	66.503	20.009

NGVC'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.

• NGVC has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 79.08% of graded US stocks.
• NGVC's asset turnover comes in at 1.579 -- ranking 71st of 165 Retail stocks.
• WBA, SBH, and SGU are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NGVC.

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