Lancaster Colony Corporation (LANC): Price and Financial Metrics

LANC POWR Grades

• LANC scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 89.66% of US stocks.
• LANC's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 26 weeks.
• LANC's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 13.1% of US stocks).

LANC Stock Summary

• LANC's went public 33.8 years ago, making it older than 84.83% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• For LANC, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by just 11.27% of US equities we're observing.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -21.36%, LANCASTER COLONY CORP's debt growth rate surpasses merely 15.04% of about US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to LANC, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are ESE, ICFI, THR, STC, and STN.
• LANC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit LANCASTER COLONY CORP's official web site, go to www.lancastercolony.com.

LANC Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, LANC's EV/EBIT ratio is 66.76% higher, now standing at 29.1.
• LANC's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 20.9 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LANC.

LANC Growth Metrics

The year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -34.56%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -49.74%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at -25.5%.

LANC's revenue has moved up $421,634,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows LANC'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	1,758.838	200.273	102.126
2022-09-30	1,709.871	153.849	96.523
2022-06-30	1,676.39	101.813	89.586
2022-03-31	1,609.543	94.141	92.268
2021-12-31	1,563.298	125.313	125.648
2021-09-30	1,509.886	149.374	135.908

LANC'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.

• LANC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 68.06% of graded US stocks.
• LANC's asset turnover comes in at 1.392 -- ranking 14th of 59 Food Products stocks.
• FLO, BRID, and LNDC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LANC.

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