Stepan Company (SCL): Price and Financial Metrics

SCL POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where SCL ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 87.37% of US stocks.
• SCL's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• SCL ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 20th percentile.

SCL Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 1,116.92, 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 97.33% of US stocks.
• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for SCL is currently 31.7, higher than 82.3% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 67.94%, Stepan Co's debt growth rate surpasses 86.42% of about US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Stepan Co, a group of peers worth examining would be CPSI, AMOT, DGII, AMSWA, and AVGR.
• 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/sales ratio is 1.3; this is 43.48% lower than that of the median Basic Materials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SCL's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 3.2.
• SCL's price/earnings ratio has moved up 2.9 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SCL.

SCL Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 40.87%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -40.75%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 35.03%.

Over the past 34 months, SCL's revenue has gone up $362,274,000.

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
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
2021-03-31	1,957.503	229.993	139.836
2020-12-31	1,869.75	235.216	126.77
2020-09-30	1,820.006	227.457	118.458

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.