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

NSTG POWR Grades

• NSTG scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 62.61% of US stocks.
• NSTG's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 52 weeks.
• NSTG's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 4.2% of US stocks).

NSTG Stock Summary

• NSTG's price/sales ratio is 15.89; that's higher than the P/S ratio of 88.22% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 26.31%, NanoString Technologies Inc's debt growth rate surpasses 80.52% 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 -11.25% -- higher than that of only 19.62% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to NanoString Technologies Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be AFIB, PSTG, MYOV, LPSN, and CLPS.
• 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 2 year price growth rate is now at 176.88%.
• The 4 year price growth rate now stands at 124.56%.
• The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 69.28%.

NSTG's revenue has moved up $26,855,000 over the prior 30 months.

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 C, ranking ahead of 25.4% of graded US stocks.
• NSTG's asset turnover comes in at 0.28 -- ranking 160th of 681 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.