Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (SCM): Price and Financial Metrics

SCM POWR Grades

• SCM scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 74.09% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SCM is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 26 weeks.
• SCM ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 12th percentile.

SCM Stock Summary

• SCM's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 18,849.97 -- higher than 99.78% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• For SCM, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 99.33% of US equities we're observing.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, SCM is more volatile than merely 7.94% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to STELLUS CAPITAL INVESTMENT CORP are THFF, BECN, EPD, SLRC, and CGBD.
• Visit SCM's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to about.pl.

SCM Valuation Summary

• SCM's price/sales ratio is 3; this is 150% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• SCM's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 117.2 over the prior 134 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SCM.

SCM Growth Metrics

Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 204.86%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at -2.09%.
• The 4 year price growth rate now stands at -48.16%.

Over the past 67 months, SCM's revenue has gone up $29,416,785.

The table below shows SCM's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	69.30313	-66.62371	20.76306
2022-06-30	66.19021	-38.49585	29.58615
2022-03-31	65.18553	-81.97539	33.85725
2021-12-31	63.67899	-76.10274	33.57287
2021-09-30	59.66082	-117.9973	40.13418
2021-06-30	56.64823	-105.6456	34.86424

SCM'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.

• SCM has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 46.4% of graded US stocks.
• SCM's asset turnover comes in at 0.078 -- ranking 263rd of 444 Trading stocks.
• UDR, EPR, and CGBD are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SCM.

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