Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (LEE): Price and Financial Metrics

LEE POWR Grades

• LEE scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 92.3% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LEE is in Quality, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• LEE ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 33rd percentile.

LEE Stock Summary

• LEE ENTERPRISES INC's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 98.2% of US listed stocks.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.15, LEE ENTERPRISES INC has a higher such ratio than merely 2.84% of stocks in our set.
• LEE's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 96.6% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to LEE, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are BOTJ, EVBN, BPOP, BKSC, and IBCP.
• Visit LEE's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.lee.net.

LEE Valuation Summary

• LEE's EV/EBIT ratio is 11.4; this is 11.28% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, LEE's price/sales ratio has gone down 2.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LEE.

LEE Growth Metrics

The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at 58.23%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 105.54%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -80.35%.

Over the past 33 months, LEE's revenue has gone up $271,392,000.

The table below shows LEE'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	781.246	8.023	9.903
2022-03-31	782.699	10.219	13.399
2021-12-31	785.115	32.277	19.541
2021-09-30	794.649	50.078	22.785
2021-06-30	792.503	54.63	16.209
2021-03-31	778.541	78.424	11.707

LEE'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.

• LEE has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 82.05% of graded US stocks.
• LEE's asset turnover comes in at 0.936 -- ranking 3rd of 14 Printing and Publishing stocks.
• DJCO, HMHC, and GCI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LEE.

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