SLM Corporation (SLM): Price and Financial Metrics

SLM POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where SLM ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 90.13% of US stocks.
• SLM's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 51 weeks.
• SLM ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 7th percentile.

SLM Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 3.89, SLM Corp P/E ratio is greater than that of about just 3.25% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 12.5 for SLM Corp; that's greater than it is for 94.99% of US stocks.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for SLM Corp comes in at 81.44%, a number that bests 91.9% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to SLM Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be CHUY, MCB, CWST, EOLS, and MFIN.
• 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/sales ratio is 2.4; this is 25% lower than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SLM's price/sales ratio has gone down 5.8.
• Over the past 243 months, SLM's price/sales ratio has gone down 5.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SLM.

SLM Growth Metrics

• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 163.15%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 40.01%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 149.89%.

SLM's revenue has moved up $1,558,401,000 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
2021-06-30	2,353.438	-300.457	1,378.951
2021-03-31	2,057.665	-281.331	1,152.253
2020-12-31	1,718.309	-182.669	870.956
2020-09-30	1,352.165	-147.391	577.457
2020-06-30	1,297.111	-14.742	532.792
2020-03-31	1,594.313	112.058	766.427

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 72.71% of graded US stocks.
• SLM's asset turnover comes in at 0.078 -- ranking 58th of 433 Banking stocks.
• ALLY, CBAN, and VBFC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SLM.

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