SM Energy Company (SM): Price and Financial Metrics

SM POWR Grades

• SM scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 99.98% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SM is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• SM ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 10th percentile.

SM Stock Summary

• SM's current price/earnings ratio is 138.01, which is higher than 95.53% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• Of note is the ratio of SM Energy Co's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 4.3% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• As for revenue growth, note that SM's revenue has grown 132.8% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of 93.91% of US companies in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to SM Energy Co are NBR, MTDR, AA, EQT, and IBEX.
• SM's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit SM Energy Co's official web site, go to www.sm-energy.com.

SM Valuation Summary

• SM's price/earnings ratio is -3.2; this is 115.92% lower than that of the median Energy stock.
• SM's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 12.2 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, SM's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SM.

SM Growth Metrics

Its 2 year price growth rate is now at -86.05%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -24.31%.
• Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -70.59%.

Over the past 34 months, SM's revenue has gone up $984,487,000.

The table below shows SM'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	2,622.894	1,159.772	36.229
2021-09-30	2,088.226	987.002	-553.846
2021-06-30	1,609.002	860.496	-737.731
2021-03-31	1,214.785	678.436	-603.988
2020-12-31	1,126.673	790.944	-764.614
2020-09-30	1,258.067	776.065	-701.494

SM'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.

• SM has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 76.52% of graded US stocks.
• SM's asset turnover comes in at 0.415 -- ranking 65th of 137 Petroleum and Natural Gas stocks.
• FANG, ESTE, and TGA are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SM.

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