UNITIL Corporation (UTL): Price and Financial Metrics

UTL POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where UTL ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 76.7% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for UTL is in Momentum, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• UTL ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 32nd percentile.

UTL Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 211.22, 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 88.37% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of Unitil Corp's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 0.5% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For UTL, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 85.92% of US equities we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Unitil Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be SB, VNOM, NWN, KNOP, and NEN.
• 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 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -46.91%.
• The 4 year price growth rate now stands at 36.9%.
• The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at -2.23%.

Over the past 15 months, UTL's revenue has gone up $55,200,000.

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
2021-12-31	473.3	107.8	36.1
2021-09-30	450.4	96.7	35.2
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

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 25.73% of graded US stocks.
• UTL's asset turnover comes in at 0.303 -- ranking 24th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• ALE, CPK, and BKH are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with UTL.

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