Nielsen N.V. Ordinary Shares (NLSN): Price and Financial Metrics

NLSN POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where NLSN ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 83.49% of US stocks.
• NLSN's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 52 weeks.
• NLSN's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 27.67% of US stocks).

NLSN Stock Summary

• Over the past twelve months, NLSN has reported earnings growth of -306.8%, putting it ahead of only 7.34% of US stocks in our set.
• As for revenue growth, note that NLSN's revenue has grown -22.05% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of merely 11.37% of US companies in our set.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for NLSN comes in at 39.02% -- higher than that of 94.17% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Nielsen Holdings plc, a group of peers worth examining would be CLH, AVA, WRK, QRTEA, and TDS.
• NLSN's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Nielsen Holdings plc's official web site, go to www.nielsen.com.

NLSN Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, NLSN's EV/EBIT ratio is 49.07% lower, now standing at 10.9.
• Over the past 129 months, NLSN's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.3.
• Over the past 129 months, NLSN's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NLSN.

NLSN Growth Metrics

• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -22.29%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -4.25%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -69.37%.

NLSN's revenue has moved down $1,535,000,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows NLSN'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	4,959	922	691
2021-03-31	5,594	959	585
2020-12-31	6,290	999	-6
2020-09-30	6,309	1,132	-150
2020-06-30	6,362	1,128	-629
2020-03-31	6,494	1,104	-476

NLSN'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.

• NLSN has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 66.02% of graded US stocks.
• NLSN's asset turnover comes in at 0.376 -- ranking 393rd of 560 Business Services stocks.
• CTXS, AWRE, and AEYE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NLSN.

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