Walker & Dunlop, Inc (WD): Price and Financial Metrics

WD POWR Grades

• WD scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 84.23% of US stocks.
• WD's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• WD's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 12.5% of US stocks).

WD Stock Summary

• WD's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 268.29 -- higher than 90.21% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• The price/operating cash flow metric for Walker & Dunlop Inc is higher than only 17.31% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• Walker & Dunlop Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 10.3%, greater than the shareholder yield of 84.38% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Walker & Dunlop Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be OZK, BZH, WRLD, SFNC, and BKU.
• WD's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Walker & Dunlop Inc's official web site, go to www.walkerdunlop.com.

WD Valuation Summary

• WD's EV/EBIT ratio is 14.5; this is 68.6% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 130 months, WD's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.5.
• WD's price/earnings ratio has moved up 3.9 over the prior 130 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WD.

WD Growth Metrics

Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 23.28%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at 99.82%.
• The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -13.57%.

WD's revenue has moved up $493,947,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows WD'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	1,259.178	870.455	265.762
2021-09-30	1,201.698	688.519	268.93
2021-06-30	1,102.424	170.615	250.399
2021-03-31	1,073.838	196.948	256.4
2020-12-31	1,083.707	-1,411.37	246.177
2020-09-30	951.188	-1,776.279	205.994

WD'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.

• WD has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 63.71% of graded US stocks.
• WD's asset turnover comes in at 0.258 -- ranking 27th of 430 Banking stocks.
• LC, OPOF, and RM are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WD.

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