Photronics, Inc. (PLAB): Price and Financial Metrics

PLAB POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where PLAB ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 96.26% of US stocks.
• PLAB's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• PLAB's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 49.55% of US stocks).

PLAB Stock Summary

• Photronics Inc's stock had its IPO on March 26, 1990, making it an older stock than 84.38% of US equities in our set.
• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for PLAB is currently 6.15, higher than only 22.05% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, Photronics Inc is reporting a growth rate of 115.64%; that's higher than 82.68% of US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Photronics Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be QDEL, ICAD, HTGM, BDR, and SMWB.
• Visit PLAB's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.photronics.com.

PLAB Valuation Summary

• PLAB's price/earnings ratio is 25.5; this is 34.62% lower than that of the median Technology stock.
• PLAB's price/earnings ratio has moved down 139.1 over the prior 243 months.
• PLAB's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 36.1 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for PLAB.

PLAB Growth Metrics

Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 13.42%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -25.98%.
• The 2 year price growth rate now stands at 25.98%.

Over the past 15 months, PLAB's revenue has gone up $91,830,000.

The table below shows PLAB'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	701.521	183.615	70.477
2021-09-30	663.761	150.772	55.449
2021-06-30	631.759	177.878	42.098
2021-03-31	619.011	139.942	35.798
2020-12-31	602.022	138.548	31.556
2020-09-30	609.691	143.046	33.82

PLAB'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.

• PLAB has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 53.07% of graded US stocks.
• PLAB's asset turnover comes in at 0.509 -- ranking 138th of 208 Electronic Equipment stocks.
• CETX, IPGP, and AXTI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with PLAB.

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