Northwest Pipe Company (NWPX): Price and Financial Metrics

NWPX POWR Grades

• NWPX scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 99.55% of US stocks.
• NWPX's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• NWPX's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 23.78% 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; 86.96% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 392.79%, NORTHWEST PIPE CO's debt growth rate surpasses 95.66% of about US stocks.
• Over the past twelve months, NWPX has reported earnings growth of 85.79%, putting it ahead of 83.99% of US stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to NWPX, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are ACA, TRS, TEX, FN, and AIRI.
• 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/earnings ratio is 14; this is 31.2% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, NWPX's price/earnings ratio has gone up 3.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NWPX.

NWPX Growth Metrics

The 4 year price growth rate now stands at 56.82%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -65.81%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -88.96%.

Over the past 67 months, NWPX's revenue has gone up $301,390,000.

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
2022-09-30	453.384	33.331	25.459
2022-06-30	415.043	-0.714	20.449
2022-03-31	370.333	-3.577	12.907
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

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.