Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (SWX): Price and Financial Metrics

SWX POWR Grades

• SWX scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 67.49% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SWX is in Momentum, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• SWX's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 13.15% of US stocks).

SWX Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Southwest Gas Holdings Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 0.5% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Southwest Gas Holdings Inc is higher than it is for about 95.63% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for SWX comes in at -64.6% -- higher than that of only 6.54% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Southwest Gas Holdings Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be PNW, TRTN, AL, AIRC, and AQN.
• Visit SWX's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.swgasholdings.com.

SWX Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Utilities stock, SWX's price/sales ratio is 42.86% lower, now standing at 1.2.
• Over the past 243 months, SWX's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.7.
• Over the past 243 months, SWX's price/earnings ratio has gone up 0.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SWX.

SWX Growth Metrics

The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at 26.91%.
• The 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 39.65%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 20.26%.

Over the past 15 months, SWX's revenue has gone up $447,521,000.

The table below shows SWX'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	3,680.451	111.383	200.779
2021-09-30	3,510.104	189.783	234.38
2021-06-30	3,412.634	252.297	264.229
2021-03-31	3,348.46	302.057	277.075
2020-12-31	3,298.873	626.08	232.324
2020-09-30	3,232.93	609.704	220.498

SWX'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.

• SWX has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 45.71% of graded US stocks.
• SWX's asset turnover comes in at 0.389 -- ranking 17th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• ATO, SJW, and SO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SWX.

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