Northwest Natural Holding Company (NWN): Price and Financial Metrics

NWN POWR Grades

• NWN scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 72.73% of US stocks.
• NWN's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 26 weeks.
• NWN ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 6th percentile.

NWN Stock Summary

• NORTHWEST NATURAL HOLDING CO's stock had its IPO on March 26, 1990, making it an older stock than 84.83% of US equities in our set.
• Of note is the ratio of NORTHWEST NATURAL HOLDING CO's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; only 0.17% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for NORTHWEST NATURAL HOLDING CO is higher than it is for about 92.75% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to NWN, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are IDA, LNT, MGEE, ALE, and UTL.
• NWN's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit NORTHWEST NATURAL HOLDING CO's official web site, go to www.nwnatural.com.

NWN Valuation Summary

• NWN's price/sales ratio is 1.2; this is 33.33% lower than that of the median Utilities stock.
• NWN's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NWN.

NWN Growth Metrics

Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -13.95%.
• The 3 year price growth rate now stands at -29.08%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -19.37%.

NWN's revenue has moved up $319,592,000 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows NWN'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	1,037.353	145.191	86.303
2022-09-30	956.19	125.731	78.895
2022-06-30	940.798	143.777	77.827
2022-03-31	894.755	145.466	75.388
2021-12-31	860.4	141.494	78.666
2021-09-30	826.583	179.403	90.185

NWN'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.

• NWN has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 40.41% of graded US stocks.
• NWN's asset turnover comes in at 0.219 -- ranking 50th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• WEC, ES, and RGCO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NWN.

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