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

NSTG POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where NSTG ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 42.89% of US stocks.
• NSTG's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• NSTG ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 14th percentile.

NSTG Stock Summary

• With a price/sales ratio of 10.97, NanoString Technologies Inc has a higher such ratio than 86.7% of stocks in our set.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 24.24%, NanoString Technologies Inc's debt growth rate surpasses 75.93% of about US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, NSTG is more volatile than 78.08% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to NanoString Technologies Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be AMWL, OTRK, IQ, URGN, and EGRX.
• 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 revenue growth rate is now at 89.27%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -367.06%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -1.73%.

NSTG's revenue has moved up $33,750,000 over the prior 34 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
2021-12-31	145.085	-90.549	-115.254
2021-09-30	138.892	-83.91	-108.997
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

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 24.67% of graded US stocks.
• NSTG's asset turnover comes in at 0.28 -- ranking 158th 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.