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

SSP POWR Grades

• SSP scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 67.37% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SSP is in Momentum, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• SSP's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 23.13% of US stocks).

SSP Stock Summary

• EW SCRIPPS Co's stock had its IPO on March 26, 1990, making it an older stock than 84.38% of US equities in our set.
• With a price/earnings ratio of 72.66, EW SCRIPPS Co P/E ratio is greater than that of about 90.1% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.76, EW SCRIPPS Co has a higher such ratio than merely 18.21% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to EW SCRIPPS Co, a group of peers worth examining would be RLGY, NXST, ECPG, VRTS, and WSC.
• 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/sales ratio is 50% lower, now standing at 0.7.
• Over the past 243 months, SSP's price/earnings ratio has gone down 22.1.
• SSP's price/sales ratio has moved down 2.6 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SSP.

SSP Growth Metrics

The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at 94.8%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 199.61%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 56233.63%.

Over the past 15 months, SSP's revenue has gone up $556,080,000.

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
2021-12-31	2,283.532	237	23.968
2021-09-30	2,252.351	274.147	240.984
2021-06-30	2,190.37	293.378	265.958
2021-03-31	1,984.176	313.787	263.423
2020-12-31	1,857.478	277.394	269.333
2020-09-30	1,727.452	121.34	35.397

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.