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

PLPC POWR Grades

• PLPC scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 92.79% of US stocks.
• PLPC's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• PLPC's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 34.46% of US stocks).

PLPC Stock Summary

• The price/operating cash flow metric for PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO is higher than 77.12% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.72, PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO has a higher such ratio than merely 23.2% of stocks in our set.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO is reporting a growth rate of 49.04%; that's higher than 75.39% of US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO, a group of peers worth examining would be OPK, MTRN, TIVC, HUN, and SSD.
• Visit PLPC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.preformed.com.

PLPC Valuation Summary

• PLPC's EV/EBIT ratio is 7.6; this is 55.81% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• PLPC's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for PLPC.

PLPC Growth Metrics

Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 16.73%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -8.91%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -0.16%.

Over the past 33 months, PLPC's revenue has gone up $153,681,000.

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
2022-09-30	598.542	18.634	46.858
2022-06-30	568.52	13.36	45.679
2022-03-31	538.087	15.187	40.836
2021-12-31	517.417	33.598	35.729
2021-09-30	504.476	32.171	29.426
2021-06-30	496.559	46.519	31.672

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.