UNITIL Corporation (UTL): Price and Financial Metrics

UTL POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where UTL ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 82.51% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for UTL is in Momentum, which has been heading down over the past 48 weeks.
• UTL ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 15th percentile.

UTL Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 191.31, Unitil Corp is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 86.05% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of Unitil Corp's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 0.42% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Unitil Corp is higher than it is for about 85.84% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Unitil Corp are MGEE, SFL, IDA, NFH, and PAC.
• UTL's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Unitil Corp's official web site, go to unitil.com.

UTL Valuation Summary

• UTL's price/earnings ratio is 21.2; this is 5.78% lower than that of the median Utilities stock.
• UTL's price/earnings ratio has moved up 3.9 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, UTL's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for UTL.

UTL Growth Metrics

• Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -30.34%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at 11.93%.
• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 24.62%.

UTL's revenue has moved down $4,500,000 over the prior 70 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	439.7	101.8	35.5
2021-03-31	427	95.5	35.9
2020-12-31	418.6	75.7	32.2
2020-09-30	418.1	87.6	30
2020-06-30	416	91.1	32
2020-03-31	416.5	95	32.9

UTL'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.

• UTL has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 27.24% of graded US stocks.
• UTL's asset turnover comes in at 0.3 -- ranking 24th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• NFG, BKH, and NJR are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with UTL.

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