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

NTCT POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where NTCT ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 99.67% of US stocks.
• NTCT's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• NTCT ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 38th percentile.

NTCT Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 36.52, NETSCOUT SYSTEMS INC P/E ratio is greater than that of about 82.04% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -61.36%, NETSCOUT SYSTEMS INC's debt growth rate surpasses just 4.09% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for NTCT comes in at 18.37% -- higher than that of 90.01% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to NETSCOUT SYSTEMS INC are IPGP, DIOD, PRGS, PCTI, and HRMY.
• 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 37.4; this is 40.34% higher than that of the median Technology stock.
• Over the past 243 months, NTCT's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NTCT.

NTCT Growth Metrics

Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 55.3%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 87.94%.
• The 3 year price growth rate now stands at 39.76%.

NTCT's revenue has moved down $264,484,000 over the prior 70 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
2022-12-31	897.628	199.549	54.463
2022-09-30	890.278	246.285	49.57
2022-06-30	874.115	259.436	40.083
2022-03-31	855.575	296.013	35.874
2021-12-31	877.773	232.405	55.717
2021-09-30	844.318	204.614	37.013

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.