Beijing Capital Grand Limited (HKG:1329) shares have continued their recent momentum with a 29% gain in the last month alone. Unfortunately, the gains of the last month did little to right the losses of the last year with the stock still down 30% over that time.
Even after such a large jump in price, you could still be forgiven for feeling indifferent about Beijing Capital Grand's P/S ratio of 0.6x, since the median price-to-sales (or "P/S") ratio for the Real Estate industry in Hong Kong is about the same. However, investors might be overlooking a clear opportunity or potential setback if there is no rational basis for the P/S.
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What Does Beijing Capital Grand's P/S Mean For Shareholders?
Beijing Capital Grand certainly has been doing a great job lately as it's been growing its revenue at a really rapid pace. Perhaps the market is expecting future revenue performance to taper off, which has kept the P/S from rising. If you like the company, you'd be hoping this isn't the case so that you could potentially pick up some stock while it's not quite in favour.
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In order to justify its P/S ratio, Beijing Capital Grand would need to produce growth that's similar to the industry.
Retrospectively, the last year delivered an exceptional 127% gain to the company's top line. The latest three year period has also seen an excellent 107% overall rise in revenue, aided by its short-term performance. Accordingly, shareholders would have definitely welcomed those medium-term rates of revenue growth.
Comparing that recent medium-term revenue trajectory with the industry's one-year growth forecast of 2.5% shows it's noticeably more attractive.
With this information, we find it interesting that Beijing Capital Grand is trading at a fairly similar P/S compared to the industry. It may be that most investors are not convinced the company can maintain its recent growth rates.
What We Can Learn From Beijing Capital Grand's P/S?
Beijing Capital Grand's stock has a lot of momentum behind it lately, which has brought its P/S level with the rest of the industry. We'd say the price-to-sales ratio's power isn't primarily as a valuation instrument but rather to gauge current investor sentiment and future expectations.
To our surprise, Beijing Capital Grand revealed its three-year revenue trends aren't contributing to its P/S as much as we would have predicted, given they look better than current industry expectations. There could be some unobserved threats to revenue preventing the P/S ratio from matching this positive performance. While recent revenue trends over the past medium-term suggest that the risk of a price decline is low, investors appear to see the likelihood of revenue fluctuations in the future.
Having said that, be aware Beijing Capital Grand is showing 3 warning signs in our investment analysis, and 2 of those make us uncomfortable.
Of course, profitable companies with a history of great earnings growth are generally safer bets. So you may wish to see this free collection of other companies that have reasonable P/E ratios and have grown earnings strongly.
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