Discover Financial Services (DFS): Price and Financial Metrics

DFS POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where DFS ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 93.11% of US stocks.
• DFS's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 26 weeks.
• DFS's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 1.47% of US stocks).

DFS Stock Summary

• DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES's market capitalization of $27,691,417,937 is ahead of 91.46% of US-listed equities.
• DFS's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 88.98% of US stocks.
• DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 14.05%, greater than the shareholder yield of 87.98% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES, a group of peers worth examining would be HBAN, FITB, L, CCEP, and DG.
• Visit DFS's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.discover.com.

DFS Valuation Summary

• DFS's EV/EBIT ratio is 8.3; this is 30.54% lower than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 201 months, DFS's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for DFS.

DFS Growth Metrics

The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 46.81%.
• The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 29.46%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -13.99%.

DFS's revenue has moved up $3.785e+09 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows DFS'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	10,978	7,140	4,304
2022-09-30	10,802	6,307	4,339
2022-06-30	10,688	6,309	4,427
2022-03-31	11,457	6,245	5,010
2021-12-31	11,869	6,019	5,351
2021-09-30	11,489	6,310	5,084

DFS'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.

• DFS has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 62.91% of graded US stocks.
• DFS's asset turnover comes in at 0.103 -- ranking 47th of 430 Banking stocks.
• MRLN, FNMA, and SFST are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with DFS.

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