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 87.53% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SCM is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 26 weeks.
• SCM's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 1.44% of US stocks).

SCM Stock Summary

• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for STELLUS CAPITAL INVESTMENT CORP is higher than it is for about 99.4% of US stocks.
• The volatility of STELLUS CAPITAL INVESTMENT CORP's share price is greater than that of only 7.01% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for SCM comes in at 51.44% -- higher than that of 96.88% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to STELLUS CAPITAL INVESTMENT CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be TSLX, CGBD, FDUS, SLRC, and TCPC.
• SCM's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit STELLUS CAPITAL INVESTMENT CORP's official web site, go to about.pl.

SCM Valuation Summary

• SCM's price/earnings ratio is 12.8; this is 11.3% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• SCM's price/sales ratio has moved down 49.3 over the prior 121 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SCM.

SCM Growth Metrics

Its 3 year price growth rate is now at -7.56%.
• The 4 year price growth rate now stands at -44.04%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 280.95%.

Over the past 52 months, SCM's revenue has gone up $26,381,843.

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
2022-09-30	69.30313	-66.62371	20.76306
2022-06-30	66.19021	-38.49585	29.58615
2022-03-31	65.18553	-81.97539	33.85725
2021-12-31	63.67899	-76.10274	33.57287
2021-09-30	59.66082	-117.9973	40.13418
2021-06-30	56.64823	-105.6456	34.86424

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.