Verastem, Inc. (VSTM): Price and Financial Metrics

VSTM POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where VSTM ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 83.3% of US stocks.
• VSTM's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 127 days.
• VSTM ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 3rd percentile.

VSTM Stock Summary

• With a price/sales ratio of 26.09, VERASTEM INC has a higher such ratio than 95.13% of stocks in our set.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 715.58%, VERASTEM INC's debt growth rate surpasses 97.21% of about US stocks.
• VERASTEM INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -71.42%, greater than the shareholder yield of only 7.79% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to VERASTEM INC are AGLE, PRTC, TGTX, VBLT, and CRBU.
• Visit VSTM's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.verastem.com.

VSTM Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Healthcare stock, VSTM's price/sales ratio is 437.5% higher, now standing at 25.8.
• Over the past 132 months, VSTM's price/sales ratio has gone NA NA.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for VSTM.

VSTM Growth Metrics

The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 423.83%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 31.25%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -353.61%.

Over the past 33 months, VSTM's revenue has gone down $14,315,000.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	3.141	-56.99	-73.485
2022-06-30	3.143	-52.735	-78.181
2022-03-31	3.643	-53.465	-73.131
2021-12-31	2.053	-53.502	-71.2
2021-09-30	2.014	-65.272	-74.583
2021-06-30	80.659	-9.698	-38.659

VSTM'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.

• VSTM has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 63.22% of graded US stocks.
• VSTM's asset turnover comes in at 0.015 -- ranking 380th of 682 Pharmaceutical Products stocks.
• NERV, BLUE, and OTLC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with VSTM.

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