Woodward, Inc. (WWD): Price and Financial Metrics

WWD POWR Grades

• WWD scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 85.92% of US stocks.
• WWD's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• WWD ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 10th percentile.

WWD Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 41.04, Woodward Inc P/E ratio is greater than that of about 81.26% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• As for revenue growth, note that WWD's revenue has grown -2.73% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of only 15.07% of US companies in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, WWD is more volatile than only 8.17% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Woodward Inc are ACLS, THRM, WB, CLXT, and ALLT.
• Visit WWD's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.woodward.com.

WWD Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, WWD's price/sales ratio is 94.44% higher, now standing at 3.5.
• Over the past 243 months, WWD's price/earnings ratio has gone up 19.4.
• Over the past 243 months, WWD's price/sales ratio has gone up 2.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WWD.

WWD Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -42.68%.
• The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 21.36%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 21.36%.

Over the past 15 months, WWD's revenue has gone down $245,866,000.

The table below shows WWD'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	2,249.799	357.234	197.384
2021-09-30	2,245.832	464.669	208.649
2021-06-30	2,206.879	454.99	215.983
2021-03-31	2,174.03	516.309	205.587
2020-12-31	2,312.929	468.771	228.592
2020-09-30	2,495.665	349.491	240.395

WWD'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.

• WWD has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 90.38% of graded US stocks.
• WWD's asset turnover comes in at 0.553 -- ranking 29th of 53 Electrical Equipment stocks.
• CCF, EFOI, and PLUG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WWD.

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