Universal Corporation (UVV): Price and Financial Metrics

UVV POWR Grades

• UVV scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 89.28% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for UVV is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 52 weeks.
• UVV's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 15.17% of US stocks).

UVV Stock Summary

• UVV's went public 33.83 years ago, making it older than 89.25% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.59, Universal Corp has a higher such ratio than just 12.15% of stocks in our set.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 41.35%, Universal Corp's debt growth rate surpasses 84.5% of about US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Universal Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be ATGE, ACCO, ALG, IBP, and ENS.
• Visit UVV's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.universalcorp.com.

UVV Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, UVV's price/earnings ratio is 35.98% lower, now standing at 14.5.
• UVV's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 5 over the prior 243 months.
• UVV's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for UVV.

UVV Growth Metrics

• Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 10.45%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 5.04%.
• The 5 year revenue growth rate now stands at -8.81%.

UVV's revenue has moved down $162,825,000 over the prior 33 months.

The table below shows UVV'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	2,017.575	93.444	86.493
2021-03-31	1,983.357	220.414	87.41
2020-12-31	1,997.861	222.418	63.614
2020-09-30	1,829.979	140.757	56.307
2020-06-30	1,928.875	127.683	76.882
2020-03-31	1,909.979	10.897	71.68

UVV'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.

• UVV has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 15.18% of graded US stocks.
• UVV's asset turnover comes in at 0.861 -- ranking 86th of 105 Wholesale stocks.
• SPRS, KAMN, and NGL are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with UVV.

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