SLM Corporation (SLM): Price and Financial Metrics

SLM POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where SLM ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 79.37% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SLM is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• SLM ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 33rd percentile.

SLM Stock Summary

• For SLM, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 89.95% of US equities we're observing.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 15.68 for SLM CORP; that's greater than it is for 96.27% of US stocks.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for SLM CORP comes in at -32.07%, a number that bests merely 8.18% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to SLM CORP are ULCC, MFIN, OPRT, BFI, and ESEA.
• SLM's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit SLM CORP's official web site, go to www.salliemae.com.

SLM Valuation Summary

• SLM's price/sales ratio is 2.9; this is 26.09% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• SLM's price/earnings ratio has moved down 8.9 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SLM.

SLM Growth Metrics

Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -53.88%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -40.68%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -32.51%.

SLM's revenue has moved up $830,296,000 over the prior 67 months.

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.