Salem Media Group, Inc. - (SALM): Price and Financial Metrics

SALM POWR Grades

• SALM scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 99.93% of US stocks.
• SALM's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• SALM ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 30th percentile.

SALM Stock Summary

• SALM's current price/earnings ratio is 2.35, which is higher than only 1.32% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• Of note is the ratio of Salem Media Group Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 99.93% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For SALM, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 97.52% of US equities we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Salem Media Group Inc are CAAP, GGB, CPSS, FCRD, and DKL.
• Visit SALM's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.salemmedia.com.

SALM Valuation Summary

• SALM's price/sales ratio is 0.3; this is 78.57% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SALM's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 7.1.
• Over the past 243 months, SALM's price/sales ratio has gone down 3.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SALM.

SALM Growth Metrics

Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 1391.67%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 1767.04%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -843.8%.

SALM's revenue has moved up $18,377,000 over the prior 18 months.

The table below shows SALM'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	258.247	22.491	41.514
2021-09-30	253.595	14.452	28.002
2021-06-30	248.253	14.083	6.237
2021-03-31	237.342	24.315	1.465
2020-12-31	236.239	22.851	-54.062
2020-09-30	236.395	25.684	-61.902

SALM'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.

• SALM has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 23.32% of graded US stocks.
• SALM's asset turnover comes in at 0.466 -- ranking 20th of 64 Communication stocks.
• DISH, VG, and OSAT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SALM.

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