Preformed Line Products Company (PLPC): Price and Financial Metrics

PLPC POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where PLPC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 99.56% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for PLPC is in Momentum, which has been heading down over the past 160 days.
• PLPC's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 17.99% of US stocks).

PLPC Stock Summary

• PLPC's current price/earnings ratio is 10.29, which is higher than merely 24.5% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.6, Preformed Line Products Co has a higher such ratio than only 12.84% of stocks in our set.
• Preformed Line Products Co's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 11.82%, greater than the shareholder yield of 84.53% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to PLPC, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are VIVO, MTRN, TNC, BRC, and EFOI.
• PLPC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Preformed Line Products Co's official web site, go to www.preformed.com.

PLPC Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, PLPC's price/sales ratio is 78.79% lower, now standing at 0.7.
• PLPC's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.2 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, PLPC's price/earnings ratio has gone up 0.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for PLPC.

PLPC Growth Metrics

Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 20.81%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 8.78%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 13.64%.

Over the past 33 months, PLPC's revenue has gone up $83,598,000.

The table below shows PLPC's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-09-30	504.476	32.171	29.426
2021-06-30	496.559	46.519	31.672
2021-03-31	481.15	57.933	33.284
2020-12-31	466.449	41.642	29.803
2020-09-30	461.593	40.105	32.757
2020-06-30	453.347	30.566	27.754

PLPC'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.

• PLPC has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 83.21% of graded US stocks.
• PLPC's asset turnover comes in at 1.065 -- ranking 30th of 51 Construction stocks.
• BBU, KBR, and GVA are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with PLPC.

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