Ingles Markets Inc. Cl A (IMKTA): Price and Financial Metrics

IMKTA POWR Grades

• IMKTA scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 96.64% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for IMKTA is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• IMKTA's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 36.16% of US stocks).

IMKTA Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of INGLES MARKETS INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 96.66% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.31, INGLES MARKETS INC has a higher such ratio than merely 8.33% of stocks in our set.
• INGLES MARKETS INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 19.87%, greater than the shareholder yield of 91.13% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to IMKTA, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are AHPI, BSET, ETD, BDL, and KELYA.
• IMKTA's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit INGLES MARKETS INC's official web site, go to www.ingles-markets.com.

IMKTA Valuation Summary

• IMKTA's price/sales ratio is 0.3; this is 72.73% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• IMKTA's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 5.4 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for IMKTA.

IMKTA Growth Metrics

Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 13.02%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 29.42%.
• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 88.98%.

Over the past 33 months, IMKTA's revenue has gone up $1,360,237,963.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-06-30	5,562.272	353.9755	274.3372
2022-03-31	5,381.57	347.0945	278.5487
2021-12-31	5,189.006	343.5009	262.0964
2021-09-30	4,987.92	306.2967	249.7315
2021-06-30	4,849.635	335.0789	235.8563
2021-03-31	4,761.77	289.4425	226.6349

IMKTA'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.

• IMKTA has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 88.93% of graded US stocks.
• IMKTA's asset turnover comes in at 2.422 -- ranking 27th of 165 Retail stocks.
• APRN, LITB, and TGT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with IMKTA.

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