E.W. Scripps Company (The) - (SSP): Price and Financial Metrics

SSP POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where SSP ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 90.06% of US stocks.
• SSP's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• SSP's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 11.05% of US stocks).

SSP Stock Summary

• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for SSP is currently 2.37, higher than just 11.05% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• SSP's price/sales ratio is 0.3; that's higher than the P/S ratio of just 10.38% of US stocks.
• EW SCRIPPS CO's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 44.24%, greater than the shareholder yield of 95.77% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to SSP, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are ECPG, UONE, VRTS, CMLS, and HRI.
• SSP's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit EW SCRIPPS CO's official web site, go to www.scripps.com.

SSP Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, SSP's price/earnings ratio is 38.76% lower, now standing at 7.9.
• Over the past 243 months, SSP's price/earnings ratio has gone down 24.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SSP.

SSP Growth Metrics

The 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 35.81%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -80.5%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 88.82%.

SSP's revenue has moved up $200,864,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows SSP's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	2,453.215	311.423	95.292
2022-09-30	2,394.565	276.725	62.546
2022-06-30	2,337.707	253.342	74.994
2022-03-31	2,308.317	224.285	38.9
2021-12-31	2,283.532	237	23.968
2021-09-30	2,252.351	274.147	240.984

SSP'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.

• SSP has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 16.19% of graded US stocks.
• SSP's asset turnover comes in at 0.4 -- ranking 33rd of 64 Communication stocks.
• SBSAA, WOW, and OBLG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SSP.

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