SLM Corporation (SLM): Price and Financial Metrics

SLM POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where SLM ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 75.91% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SLM is in Momentum, which has been heading down over the past 26 weeks.
• SLM's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 20.21% of US stocks).

SLM Stock Summary

• The price/operating cash flow metric for SLM CORP is higher than 95.41% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• SLM's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 96.22% of US stocks.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for SLM CORP comes in at -23.85%, a number that bests merely 7.65% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to SLM CORP are BKU, MCB, ULCC, MFIN, and DBRG.
• Visit SLM's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.salliemae.com.

SLM Valuation Summary

• SLM's price/earnings ratio is 5.1; this is 55.65% lower than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SLM's price/earnings ratio has gone down 15.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SLM.

SLM Growth Metrics

The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at -12.89%.
• The 5 year revenue growth rate now stands at 99.1%.
• Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 27.97%.

Over the past 33 months, SLM's revenue has gone up $363,865,000.

The table below shows SLM'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	1,681.858	51.469	845.582
2022-06-30	1,657.832	132.91	844.615
2022-03-31	1,388.771	-32.486	643.308
2021-12-31	2,060.172	-49.522	1,155.777
2021-09-30	2,208.593	-68.642	1,281.655
2021-06-30	2,353.438	-300.457	1,378.951

SLM'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.

• SLM has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 67.55% of graded US stocks.
• SLM's asset turnover comes in at 0.074 -- ranking 59th of 428 Banking stocks.
• GDOT, FBC, and NNI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SLM.

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