Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (SCM): Price and Financial Metrics

SCM POWR Grades

• SCM scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 80.85% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SCM is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 47 weeks.
• SCM's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 3.07% of US stocks).

SCM Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 7.27, Stellus Capital Investment Corp P/E ratio is greater than that of about merely 11.89% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Stellus Capital Investment Corp is higher than it is for about 99.28% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for SCM comes in at -40.66% -- higher than that of merely 6.61% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Stellus Capital Investment Corp are AINV, TSLX, OCSL, SLRC, and PNNT.
• Visit SCM's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to about.pl.

SCM Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, SCM's EV/EBIT ratio is 67.44% higher, now standing at 14.4.
• Over the past 105 months, SCM's price/sales ratio has gone down 48.6.
• SCM's price/sales ratio has moved down 48.6 over the prior 105 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SCM.

SCM Growth Metrics

• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 74.15%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -23.01%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 436.86%.

Over the past 15 months, SCM's revenue has gone down $3,689,776.

The table below shows SCM'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	56.64823	-105.6456	34.86424
2021-03-31	55.38513	-32.65582	69.06996
2020-12-31	56.65831	-3.487593	20.19244
2020-09-30	58.51055	-27.34799	5.214429
2020-06-30	60.00903	-97.73018	6.174003
2020-03-31	60.33801	-117.9123	-27.64399

SCM'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.

• SCM has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 31.64% of graded US stocks.
• SCM's asset turnover comes in at 0.078 -- ranking 263rd of 457 Trading stocks.
• WELL, TCPC, and SPG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SCM.

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