Universal Corporation (UVV): Price and Financial Metrics

UVV POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where UVV ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 87.81% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for UVV is in Stability, which has been heading down over the past 26 weeks.
• UVV's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 47.08% of US stocks).

UVV Stock Summary

• UVV's went public 36.02 years ago, making it older than 89.57% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• Of note is the ratio of UNIVERSAL CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.33% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for UVV comes in at 16.14% -- higher than that of 89.67% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to UNIVERSAL CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be GTES, JBI, CLW, BBCP, and AWI.
• Visit UVV's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.universalcorp.com.

UVV Valuation Summary

• UVV's price/sales ratio is 0.6; this is 36.84% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• Over the past 243 months, UVV's price/earnings ratio has gone up 3.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for UVV.

UVV Growth Metrics

The 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 243.13%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -24%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -72.72%.

UVV's revenue has moved up $451,600,000 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows UVV'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	2,522.818	-87.392	96.115
2022-09-30	2,380.423	-180.595	89.395
2022-06-30	2,183.394	-53.966	87.05
2022-03-31	2,103.601	44.882	86.577
2021-12-31	2,074.218	130.215	100.168
2021-09-30	2,094.505	249.602	98.501

UVV'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.

• UVV has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 15.18% of graded US stocks.
• UVV's asset turnover comes in at 0.861 -- ranking 86th of 105 Wholesale stocks.
• SPRS, KAMN, and NGL are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with UVV.

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