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Company Overview and History Nuvera is a diversified communications Company headquartered in New Ulm, Minnesota with more than 120 years of experience in the communications business. Our principal line of business is the operation of seven communications companies.
$17.64
+$0.00 (+0.00%)
EOD Jul 17, 2026
13.76% operating margin is respectable but not wide. ROIC at 4.05%. Suggests the business covers its cost of capital, but doesn't point to a wide moat.
Revenue grew 3.7%, steady but not accelerating.
At 110x earnings, the current multiple leaves limited room for execution misses or growth deceleration. Negative free cash flow of -$14M. The business is consuming cash, not generating it.
110.3x earnings. The market is pricing in years of above-average growth. If that thesis breaks, downside from multiple compression alone could be 30%+. This is a stock where you're paying for the future, not the present.
Based on TTM earnings · Diluted shares
Profitability & Returns
Revenue (TTM)
$72M
▲ +3.7% YoY
Net Income (TTM)
$877K
▲ +107.4% YoY
Op. Margin
14.99%
▼ -0.5pp YoY
ROIC
4.33%
▼ -0.1pp YoY
Cash Flow & Balance Sheet
FCF (TTM)
-$13M
▲ +59.6% YoY
Op. Cash Flow (TTM)
$21M
▲ +1.0% YoY
Net Debt
$146M
Cash & Equiv.
$262K
5Y CAGR: +2.0%
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At a P/E of 110.3, Nuvera Communications (NUVR)'s valuation is best read against its own history, its peers, and the growth its price implies. A high multiple is not the same as overvalued: fast-growing, high-quality businesses can deserve a premium. See the general approach in how to tell if a stock is overvalued.
On quality, Nuvera Communications scores 12/100 on Intrinsiqq's quality scorecard, weighing growth, margins, returns on capital, share count, and balance-sheet strength. All figures are computed from SEC filings; read the full . This is analysis, not investment advice.
Nuvera Communications scores 12 out of 100 on Intrinsiqq's quality score, a weighted blend of 7 metrics each scored 0 to 100, which makes it a lower-quality business on these measures. Recent fundamentals include a 15.0% operating margin and a 4.3% return on invested capital. The score weighs revenue and free-cash-flow growth, operating margins, return on invested capital, share-count change, and balance-sheet strength, all computed from SEC filings, not opinion. Because valuation only means something relative to quality, the full metric-by-metric breakdown is on the quality scorecard.
That depends on valuation and quality together, not either alone. you should weigh NUVR's valuation and scores 12/100 on quality (lower-quality). A cheap price is only a bargain if the business is durable, and a premium can be justified by genuine quality, so the two questions, "is it cheap?" and "is it good?", only make sense side by side. Read the valuation against the quality scorecard, run the DCF on your own assumptions, and decide for yourself. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.