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 99.65% of US stocks.
• PLPC's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 48 weeks.
• PLPC's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 23.97% of US stocks).

PLPC Stock Summary

• PLPC's price/sales ratio is 0.64; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 13.76% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, PLPC is more volatile than only 8.32% of stocks we're observing.
• Preformed Line Products Co's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 13.38%, greater than the shareholder yield of 83.88% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Preformed Line Products Co, a group of peers worth examining would be LPTH, MTRN, EFOI, LAIX, and MMSI.
• 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 net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 138.57%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 1.66%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 13.64%.

PLPC's revenue has moved up $84,200,000 over the prior 33 months.

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
2021-06-30	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
2020-03-31	450.56	23.661	25.177

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 84.28% of graded US stocks.
• PLPC's asset turnover comes in at 1.072 -- ranking 30th of 52 Construction stocks.
• KBR, TOL, and TPC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with PLPC.

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