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 99.59% of US stocks.
• PLPC's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• PLPC ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 20th percentile.

PLPC Stock Summary

• PLPC's current price/earnings ratio is 8.82, which is higher than only 20.43% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• PLPC's price/sales ratio is 0.61; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 14.13% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for PLPC comes in at 7.38% -- higher than that of 79.45% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Preformed Line Products Co are LIQT, INTT, VNT, HUN, and SSD.
• 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

The year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 144.85%.
• Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 29.64%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 17.69%.

Over the past 34 months, PLPC's revenue has gone up $97,525,000.

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
2021-12-31	517.417	33.598	35.729
2021-09-30	504.476	32.171	29.426
2021-06-30	496.559	46.519	31.672
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

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.