NetScout Systems, Inc. (NTCT): Price and Financial Metrics

NTCT POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where NTCT ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 96.09% of US stocks.
• NTCT's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 163 days.
• NTCT's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 27.3% of US stocks).

NTCT Stock Summary

• NTCT's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 230.61 -- higher than 89.01% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• With a price/earnings ratio of 60.86, Netscout Systems Inc P/E ratio is greater than that of about 88.12% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• As for revenue growth, note that NTCT's revenue has grown -3.89% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of just 18.41% of US companies in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Netscout Systems Inc are PRGS, DIOD, MRCY, NTGR, and SWIR.
• Visit NTCT's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.netscout.com.

NTCT Valuation Summary

• NTCT's price/earnings ratio is 79.2; this is 103.08% higher than that of the median Technology stock.
• Over the past 243 months, NTCT's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.3.
• NTCT's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 165.4 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NTCT.

NTCT Growth Metrics

Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 60.64%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 57.25%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 3.83%.

NTCT's revenue has moved down $259,413,000 over the prior 49 months.

The table below shows NTCT's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-09-30	844.318	204.614	37.013
2021-06-30	837.739	193.046	25.431
2021-03-31	831.282	213.921	19.352
2020-12-31	847.244	229.136	15.251
2020-09-30	878.529	233.213	22.955
2020-06-30	889.611	220.496	9.169

NTCT'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.

• NTCT has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 76.32% of graded US stocks.
• NTCT's asset turnover comes in at 0.275 -- ranking 74th of 83 Computers stocks.
• CSPI, CERN, and PSTG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NTCT.

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