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 72.46% of US stocks.
• SCM's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• SCM ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 41st percentile.

SCM Stock Summary

• For SCM, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 99.22% of US equities we're observing.
• The volatility of Stellus Capital Investment Corp's share price is greater than that of only 2.41% 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 25.44%, greater than the shareholder yield of 93.43% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Stellus Capital Investment Corp are AINV, BIP, FDUS, MRCC, and OCSL.
• 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

• 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

The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -675.8%.
• The 3 year price growth rate now stands at 42.89%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -8.21%.

Over the past 52 months, SCM's revenue has gone up $23,245,862.

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
2021-12-31	63.67899	-76.10274	33.57287
2021-09-30	59.66082	-117.9973	40.13418
2021-06-30	56.64823	-105.6456	34.86424
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

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.