SLM Corporation (SLM): Price and Financial Metrics

SLM POWR Grades

• SLM scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 75.22% of US stocks.
• SLM's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• SLM ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 18th percentile.

SLM Stock Summary

• SLM's went public 35.41 years ago, making it older than 90.53% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• For SLM, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 91.05% of US equities we're observing.
• SLM's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 96.17% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to SLM, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are ULCC, AMBP, SFBS, AMTB, and ATLC.
• 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/earnings ratio is 8.3; this is 2.35% lower than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SLM's price/earnings ratio has gone down 13.9.

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.