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

NGVC POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where NGVC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 97.63% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for NGVC is in Momentum, which has been heading up over the past 26 weeks.
• NGVC ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 28th percentile.

NGVC Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for NGVC is 6.68 -- better than 93.89% of US stocks.
• NGVC's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 315.07 -- higher than 89.5% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• NGVC's price/sales ratio is 0.32; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 10.37% of US stocks.
• 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 PDCO, TITN, RYI, SIG, and CAL.
• 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

• NGVC's price/sales ratio is 0.3; this is 84.21% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• Over the past 139 months, NGVC's price/earnings ratio has gone down 43.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NGVC.

NGVC Growth Metrics

Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 156.04%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 46.75%.
• The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at 12.64%.

Over the past 34 months, NGVC's revenue has gone up $133,620,000.

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
2022-12-31	1,092.794	48.841	16.857
2022-09-30	1,089.625	39.693	21.365
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

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.