Belden Inc. (BDC): Price and Financial Metrics

BDC POWR Grades

• BDC scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 82.21% of US stocks.
• BDC's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• BDC ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 47th percentile.

BDC Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 31.8, BELDEN INC P/E ratio is greater than that of about 79.53% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -24.03%, BELDEN INC's debt growth rate surpasses merely 14.21% of about US stocks.
• BELDEN INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 11.52%, greater than the shareholder yield of 84.92% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to BELDEN INC, a group of peers worth examining would be VIVO, CAE, XRX, HLLY, and RMO.
• Visit BDC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.belden.com.

BDC Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, BDC's price/sales ratio is 8.33% lower, now standing at 1.1.
• Over the past 243 months, BDC's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for BDC.

BDC Growth Metrics

Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -52.14%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -5.65%.
• The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at 23.63%.

Over the past 33 months, BDC's revenue has gone up $46,254,000.

The table below shows BDC's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-06-30	2,546.667	236.82	85.897
2022-03-31	2,482.09	255.595	71.1
2021-12-31	2,408.1	272.055	63.925
2021-09-30	2,267.73	236.594	120.63
2021-06-30	2,112.734	212.148	96.362
2021-03-31	1,935.571	183.921	-15.307

BDC'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.

• BDC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 64.46% of graded US stocks.
• BDC's asset turnover comes in at 0.671 -- ranking 30th of 40 Steel Works Etc stocks.
• X, STLD, and KALU are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with BDC.

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