Stepan Company (SCL): Price and Financial Metrics

SCL POWR Grades

• SCL scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 84.21% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SCL is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 178 days.
• SCL ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 24th percentile.

SCL Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 330.49, STEPAN CO is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 92.73% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 81.53%, STEPAN CO's debt growth rate surpasses 86.22% of about US stocks.
• The volatility of STEPAN CO's share price is greater than that of only 4.6% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to SCL, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are AVID, AVNW, PII, CTSO, and YQ.
• SCL's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit STEPAN CO's official web site, go to www.stepan.com.

SCL Valuation Summary

• SCL's price/earnings ratio is 16.5; this is 35.8% higher than that of the median Basic Materials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SCL's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SCL.

SCL Growth Metrics

The 5 year revenue growth rate now stands at 3.02%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 8.12%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 22.62%.

Over the past 33 months, SCL's revenue has gone up $897,376,000.

The table below shows SCL'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	2,756.121	125.66	153.314
2022-06-30	2,639.624	85.592	150.85
2022-03-31	2,483.502	62.903	142.002
2021-12-31	2,345.966	72.135	137.804
2021-09-30	2,230.673	114.94	151.159
2021-06-30	2,092.465	201.411	147.407

SCL'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.

• SCL has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 50.73% of graded US stocks.
• SCL's asset turnover comes in at 1.181 -- ranking 15th of 50 Consumer Goods stocks.
• CL, LZB, and LEG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SCL.

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