National Research Corporation (NRC): Price and Financial Metrics

NRC POWR Grades

• NRC scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 99.31% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for NRC is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• NRC's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 38.94% of US stocks).

NRC Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 165.04, National Research Corp is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 85.39% of US stocks.
• With a price/sales ratio of 6.77, National Research Corp has a higher such ratio than 78.84% of stocks in our set.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -13.27%, National Research Corp's debt growth rate surpasses 25.84% of about US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to National Research Corp are SVT, BHLB, TCS, IBCP, and EBMT.
• NRC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit National Research Corp's official web site, go to nrchealth.com.

NRC Valuation Summary

• NRC's price/sales ratio is 9.8; this is 157.89% higher than that of the median Healthcare stock.
• Over the past 243 months, NRC's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 15.2.
• Over the past 243 months, NRC's price/sales ratio has gone up 7.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NRC.

NRC Growth Metrics

The year over year price growth rate now stands at -14.77%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 86.32%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -71.75%.

NRC's revenue has moved up $27,805,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows NRC'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	147.954	46.344	37.466
2021-09-30	144.43	50.487	36.045
2021-06-30	140.14	52.299	35.966
2021-03-31	134.881	49.521	34.737
2020-12-31	133.277	40.636	37.26
2020-09-30	131.126	36.362	37.746

NRC'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.

• NRC has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 98.92% of graded US stocks.
• NRC's asset turnover comes in at 1.002 -- ranking 129th of 561 Business Services stocks.
• AUTO, MELI, and WDAY are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NRC.

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