Northwest Pipe Company (NWPX): Price and Financial Metrics

NWPX POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where NWPX ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 72.25% of US stocks.
• NWPX's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• NWPX ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 7th percentile.

NWPX Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Northwest Pipe Co's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.61% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 323.74%, Northwest Pipe Co's debt growth rate surpasses 96.29% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for NWPX comes in at -28.84% -- higher than that of only 13.73% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to NWPX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are LMNR, DCO, SSSS, ESNT, and WTTR.
• NWPX's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Northwest Pipe Co's official web site, go to www.nwpipe.com.

NWPX Valuation Summary

• NWPX's price/sales ratio is 0.9; this is 50% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, NWPX's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.5.
• Over the past 243 months, NWPX's price/earnings ratio has gone up 5.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NWPX.

NWPX Growth Metrics

The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -75.85%.
• The 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 166.25%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -21.44%.

Over the past 15 months, NWPX's revenue has gone up $44,542,000.

The table below shows NWPX'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	333.313	-5.811	11.523
2021-09-30	300.147	-0.928	14.473
2021-06-30	293.136	32.372	16.794
2021-03-31	289.295	40.465	20.661
2020-12-31	285.907	56.087	19.05
2020-09-30	288.771	64.91	25.845

NWPX'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.

• NWPX has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 21.19% of graded US stocks.
• NWPX's asset turnover comes in at 0.797 -- ranking 24th of 40 Steel Works Etc stocks.
• SXC, NANX, and NX are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NWPX.

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