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

WMS POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where WMS ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.73% of US stocks.
• WMS's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• WMS ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 7th percentile.

WMS Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for WMS is 3.17 -- better than 84.81% of US stocks.
• WMS's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 236.81 -- higher than 89.53% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• The price/operating cash flow metric for Advanced Drainage Systems Inc is higher than 88.68% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be DHIL, CRTD, GRIL, HIMS, and CHH.
• 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 net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -1382.53%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 890.69%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 50.6%.

Over the past 15 months, WMS's revenue has gone up $717,919,000.

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
2021-12-31	2,534.937	197.287	244.778
2021-09-30	2,305.725	260.926	224.874
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

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 89.66% of graded US stocks.
• WMS's asset turnover comes in at 0.893 -- ranking 9th of 22 Rubber and Plastic Products stocks.
• BERY, ATR, and NPO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WMS.

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