SM Energy Company (SM): Price and Financial Metrics

SM POWR Grades

• SM scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 90.28% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SM is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 26 weeks.
• SM ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 9th percentile.

SM Stock Summary

• SM's current price/earnings ratio is 5.52, which is higher than only 5.78% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• Of note is the ratio of SM ENERGY CO's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; only 4.74% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• As for revenue growth, note that SM's revenue has grown -31.22% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of merely 8.66% of US companies in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to SM ENERGY CO are ETWO, MMAT, TDOC, MKSI, and MGY.
• SM's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit SM ENERGY CO's official web site, go to www.sm-energy.com.

SM Valuation Summary

• SM's price/earnings ratio is 5.5; this is 35.67% lower than that of the median Energy stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SM's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SM.

SM Growth Metrics

Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 99.75%.
• The year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 105.8%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 140.72%.

SM's revenue has moved up $1,753,738,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows SM'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	3,358.647	1,686.406	1,111.952
2022-09-30	3,542.289	1,827.661	1,278.389
2022-06-30	3,467.077	1,642.41	882.742
2022-03-31	3,038.824	1,396.24	336.262
2021-12-31	2,622.894	1,159.772	36.229
2021-09-30	2,088.226	987.002	-553.846

SM'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.

• SM has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 76.52% of graded US stocks.
• SM's asset turnover comes in at 0.415 -- ranking 65th of 137 Petroleum and Natural Gas stocks.
• FANG, ESTE, and TGA are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SM.

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