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

SCM POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where SCM ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 86.54% of US stocks.
• SCM's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 169 days.
• SCM ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 18th percentile.

SCM Stock Summary

• For SCM, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 99.25% of US equities we're observing.
• The volatility of Stellus Capital Investment Corp's share price is greater than that of only 2.17% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stellus Capital Investment Corp's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -45.39%, greater than the shareholder yield of only 9.97% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Stellus Capital Investment Corp are AINV, TSLX, OCSL, LNC, and SLRC.
• 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 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -215.51%.
• The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at 68.01%.
• The year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 72.3%.

SCM's revenue has moved up $6,394,485 over the prior 33 months.

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
2021-09-30	59.66082	-117.9973	40.13418
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

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 46.4% of graded US stocks.
• SCM's asset turnover comes in at 0.078 -- ranking 263rd of 444 Trading stocks.
• UDR, EPR, and CGBD are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SCM.

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