Capital Southwest Corporation (CSWC): Price and Financial Metrics

CSWC POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where CSWC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 90.39% of US stocks.
• CSWC's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 26 weeks.
• CSWC's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 18.36% of US stocks).

CSWC Stock Summary

• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for CAPITAL SOUTHWEST CORP is higher than it is for about 97.59% of US stocks.
• As for revenue growth, note that CSWC's revenue has grown 65.18% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of 93.02% of US companies in our set.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for CSWC comes in at -24.04% -- higher than that of just 13.31% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to CAPITAL SOUTHWEST CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be LBC, AMBC, NFBK, KRNY, and AFCG.
• Visit CSWC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.capitalsouthwest.com.

CSWC Valuation Summary

• CSWC's price/earnings ratio is 14.1; this is 28.18% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• CSWC's price/sales ratio has moved down 52.3 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CSWC.

CSWC Growth Metrics

Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -38.6%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 20.79%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -10.17%.

Over the past 34 months, CSWC's revenue has gone up $41,098,000.

The table below shows CSWC'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	103.137	-237.22	34.586
2022-09-30	92.682	-174.444	44.197
2022-06-30	86.179	-152.185	30.183
2022-03-31	82.215	-182.675	42.815
2021-12-31	78.359	-161.651	33.363
2021-09-30	75.088	-125.242	36.202

CSWC'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.

• CSWC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 48.4% of graded US stocks.
• CSWC's asset turnover comes in at 0.095 -- ranking 49th of 428 Banking stocks.
• NYCB, IROQ, and INBK are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CSWC.

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