Spire Inc. (SR): Price and Financial Metrics

SR POWR Grades

• SR scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 94.75% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SR is in Quality, which has been heading down over the past 177 days.
• SR's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 6.88% of US stocks).

SR Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of SPIRE INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 0.55% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for SPIRE INC is higher than it is for about 96.15% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, SR is more volatile than only 5.88% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to SPIRE INC are NJR, CWEN, LNT, SWX, and CMS.
• Visit SR's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.spireenergy.com.

SR Valuation Summary

• SR's EV/EBIT ratio is 20.5; this is 7.24% lower than that of the median Utilities stock.
• SR's price/sales ratio has moved up 1.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SR.

SR Growth Metrics

Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -6.22%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at -2.56%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -92.34%.

Over the past 33 months, SR's revenue has gone up $281,200,000.

The table below shows SR'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	2,198.5	55	205.7
2022-06-30	2,174.5	233.7	203
2022-03-31	2,054.3	245.7	209.6
2021-12-31	2,278.3	12.3	223.3
2021-09-30	2,235.5	249.8	256.5
2021-06-30	2,197.2	236.8	246.7

SR'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.

• SR has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 13.87% of graded US stocks.
• SR's asset turnover comes in at 0.254 -- ranking 36th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• OKE, DTE, and IDA are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SR.

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