Northwest Pipe Company (NWPX): Price and Financial Metrics

NWPX POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where NWPX ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 87.37% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for NWPX is in Quality, which has been heading down over the past 52 weeks.
• NWPX's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 4.55% of US stocks).

NWPX Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Northwest Pipe Co's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 86.36% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• NWPX's price/sales ratio is 0.8; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 16.72% of US stocks.
• NWPX's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of just 18.9% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to NWPX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are WTER, MLSS, LSF, CNS, and NCSM.
• 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

• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 176.23%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 8.49%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 189.5%.

Over the past 33 months, NWPX's revenue has gone up $142,904,000.

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
2021-06-30	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
2020-06-30	286.365	54.374	29.325
2020-03-31	285.597	47.565	26.301

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 22.59% of graded US stocks.
• NWPX's asset turnover comes in at 0.797 -- ranking 23rd of 41 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.