Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (WMS): Price and Financial Metrics

WMS POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where WMS ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 89.12% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for WMS is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 48 weeks.
• WMS's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 19.86% of US stocks).

WMS Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $7,732,116,897, Advanced Drainage Systems Inc has a greater market value than 77.87% of US stocks.
• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for WMS is 2.71 -- better than 82.42% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -23.87%, Advanced Drainage Systems Inc's debt growth rate surpasses just 21.54% of about US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc are SGA, DHIL, IMAX, DENN, and STKL.
• Visit WMS's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.ads-pipe.com.

WMS Valuation Summary

• WMS's price/sales ratio is 3.8; this is 65.22% higher than that of the median Basic Materials stock.
• Over the past 87 months, WMS's price/earnings ratio has gone up 285.5.
• Over the past 87 months, WMS's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 0.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WMS.

WMS Growth Metrics

• The 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 2558.02%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 126.23%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 169.61%.

Over the past 33 months, WMS's revenue has gone up $778,093,000.

The table below shows WMS'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	2,143.441	422.831	229.751
2021-03-31	1,982.78	452.216	224.23
2020-12-31	1,909.739	458.647	206.781
2020-09-30	1,817.018	420.646	176.295
2020-06-30	1,768.736	377.082	103.648
2020-03-31	1,673.805	306.189	-193.174

WMS'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.

• WMS has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 89.12% of graded US stocks.
• WMS's asset turnover comes in at 0.893 -- ranking 9th of 22 Rubber and Plastic Products stocks.
• BERY, NPO, and NWL are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WMS.

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