Business quality: about averageValuation: pricier than most
An average business among information technology companies, priced above most of them.
Shopify trades at 74.9 times the next 12 months of expected earnings, against a median of 22.2x for the 99 information technology stocks we cover. The quality score blends where it ranks on revenue growth, gross margin, operating margin and free-cash-flow margin (net margin for banks and insurers) over the last 12 months, from SEC filings.
- Revenue grew faster than the sector median: +32.5% vs +20.6%
- Keeps less of each sale (gross margin): 47.8% vs 61.5%
- Less profitable (operating margin): 13.9% vs 17.0%
- Turns less of its sales into cash: 17.7% vs 21.7%