NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NSTG): Price and Financial Metrics

NSTG POWR Grades

• NSTG scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 63.01% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for NSTG is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 51 weeks.
• NSTG ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 18th percentile.

NSTG Stock Summary

• With a price/sales ratio of 15.15, NanoString Technologies Inc has a higher such ratio than 87.79% of stocks in our set.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 26.31%, NanoString Technologies Inc's debt growth rate surpasses 80.47% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for NSTG comes in at -11.8% -- higher than that of just 19.23% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to NanoString Technologies Inc are AFIB, MYOV, PSTG, LPSN, and QTWO.
• Visit NSTG's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.nanostring.com.

NSTG Valuation Summary

• NSTG's price/sales ratio is 19.8; this is 421.05% higher than that of the median Healthcare stock.
• Over the past 100 months, NSTG's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 25.8.
• NSTG's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 25.8 over the prior 100 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NSTG.

NSTG Growth Metrics

• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -105.31%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -64.59%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at 88.58%.

Over the past 67 months, NSTG's revenue has gone up $70,920,000.

The table below shows NSTG'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	133.587	-75.69	-99.053
2021-03-31	122.328	-82.735	-99.166
2020-12-31	117.316	-81.662	-110.078
2020-09-30	117.985	-90.318	-63.087
2020-06-30	116.744	-90.404	-64.518
2020-03-31	124.485	-89.027	-57.422

NSTG'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.

• NSTG has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 22.47% of graded US stocks.
• NSTG's asset turnover comes in at 0.28 -- ranking 160th of 680 Pharmaceutical Products stocks.
• FOLD, CLVS, and RDUS are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NSTG.

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