Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NGVC): Price and Financial Metrics

NGVC POWR Grades

• Stability is the dimension where NGVC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 95.88% of US stocks.
• NGVC's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• NGVC's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 36.16% of US stocks).

NGVC Stock Summary

• NATURAL GROCERS BY VITAMIN COTTAGE INC's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 95% of US listed stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of NATURAL GROCERS BY VITAMIN COTTAGE INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.43% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.28, NATURAL GROCERS BY VITAMIN COTTAGE INC has a higher such ratio than merely 7.3% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to NATURAL GROCERS BY VITAMIN COTTAGE INC, a group of peers worth examining would be COKE, SPWH, RYI, TLYS, and NTZ.
• Visit NGVC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.naturalgrocers.com.

NGVC Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, NGVC's price/earnings ratio is 37.95% lower, now standing at 12.1.
• Over the past 123 months, NGVC's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 17.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NGVC.

NGVC Growth Metrics

The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 631.24%.
• The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 156.04%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 84.12%.

NGVC's revenue has moved up $184,486,000 over the prior 33 months.

The table below shows NGVC'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	1,088.068	52.372	26.418
2022-03-31	1,080.383	64.156	27.517
2021-12-31	1,067.759	53.596	25.864
2021-09-30	1,055.516	53.88	20.581
2021-06-30	1,047.045	36.059	17.1
2021-03-31	1,053.531	30.448	16.759

NGVC'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.

• NGVC has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 79.08% of graded US stocks.
• NGVC's asset turnover comes in at 1.579 -- ranking 71st of 165 Retail stocks.
• WBA, SBH, and SGU are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NGVC.

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