Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (PIRS): Price and Financial Metrics

PIRS POWR Grades

• PIRS scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 80.28% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for PIRS is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• PIRS's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 4.64% of US stocks).

PIRS Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Pieris Pharmaceuticals Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 7.68% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Pieris Pharmaceuticals Inc is higher than it is for about merely 18.14% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for PIRS comes in at -25.02% -- higher than that of only 15.4% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to PIRS, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are AUTL, ARDS, ABUS, XCUR, and AYLA.
• Visit PIRS's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.pieris.com.

PIRS Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Healthcare stock, PIRS's EV/EBIT ratio is 118.09% lower, now standing at -5.3.
• Over the past 81 months, PIRS's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.9.
• PIRS's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.9 over the prior 81 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for PIRS.

PIRS Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -48.45%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -17.32%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 745.63%.

PIRS's revenue has moved down $13,298,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows PIRS'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	31.418	-7.66	-45.738
2021-09-30	24.852	-10.133	-50.606
2021-06-30	23.734	-3.219	-48.353
2021-03-31	31.695	-42.903	-37.805
2020-12-31	29.323	-45.896	-37.23
2020-09-30	44.716	-46.453	-26.431

PIRS'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.

• PIRS has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 27.39% of graded US stocks.
• PIRS's asset turnover comes in at 0.193 -- ranking 490th of 561 Business Services stocks.
• NXTD, ATVI, and AEYE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with PIRS.

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