Australian (ASX) Specialty Stores Industry Analysis

UpdatedNov 28, 2021

DataAggregated Company Financials

Companies24

7D-6.3%
3M2.3%
1Y26.3%
YTD15.5%

Over the last 7 days, the Specialty Stores industry has dropped 6.3%, driven by a pullback from Lovisa Holdings of 13%. This takes the industry's 12 month performance to a gain of 26%.

Industry Valuation and Performance

Has the Australian Specialty Stores Industry valuation changed over the past few years?

Date	Market Cap	Revenue	Earnings	PE
Sun, 28 Nov 2021	AU$27.8b	AU$32.9b	AU$2.1b	10.6x
Tue, 26 Oct 2021	AU$28.7b	AU$32.9b	AU$2.1b	11.5x
Thu, 23 Sep 2021	AU$26.7b	AU$32.8b	AU$2.0b	11.3x
Sat, 21 Aug 2021	AU$26.9b	AU$32.8b	AU$2.0b	10.9x
Sat, 05 Jun 2021	AU$26.6b	AU$31.3b	AU$1.7b	12.6x
Tue, 09 Mar 2021	AU$22.4b	AU$29.0b	AU$1.4b	14.1x
Mon, 30 Nov 2020	AU$21.1b	AU$27.4b	AU$798.6m	15.6x
Thu, 03 Sep 2020	AU$19.1b	AU$26.4b	AU$492.4m	19.1x
Sun, 07 Jun 2020	AU$14.6b	AU$25.1b	AU$521.0m	13.2x
Sat, 29 Feb 2020	AU$16.0b	AU$24.6b	AU$586.9m	12.9x
Tue, 03 Dec 2019	AU$17.6b	AU$22.6b	AU$794.8m	16.4x
Fri, 06 Sep 2019	AU$16.3b	AU$22.4b	AU$827.0m	15.1x
Mon, 10 Jun 2019	AU$15.0b	AU$22.1b	AU$843.2m	14.2x
Sun, 03 Mar 2019	AU$13.0b	AU$21.9b	AU$868.0m	12.9x
Wed, 05 Dec 2018	AU$12.4b	AU$21.4b	AU$858.3m	11.7x

PE Ratio

11.7x

Wed, 05 Dec 2018

Current Industry PE: Investors are relatively neutral on the industry at the moment, considering it's trading close to its 3-year average PE ratio of 13.6x. It appears they believe that earnings will grow in-line with historical growth rates.

Past Earnings Growth: The earnings for companies in the Specialty Retail industry have grown 34% per year over the last three years, and revenues for these companies have grown 15% per year. This means that more sales are being generated by these companies overall, and subsequently their profits are increasing too.

Industry Trends

Which industries have driven the changes within the Australian Specialty Stores industry?


Home Improvement Retail	-3.83%
Automotive Retail	-3.99%
Computer and Electronics Retail	-4.52%
Home Furnishing Retail	-5.38%
Apparel Retail	-6.89%
Specialty Stores	-9.05%

Industry PE: Investors are most optimistic about the Apparel Retail industry even though it's trading below its 3-year average PE ratio of 21.1x. However analysts are expecting annual earnings growth of 6.0%, which is lower than the prior year's growth of 92% per year. So the market might believe that analysts are underestimating future growth. Meanwhile, investors are most pessimistic about the Computer and Electronics Retail industry, which is trading close to its 3-year average of 9.6x.

Forecasted Growth: Analysts are most optimistic on the Specialty Stores industry, expecting annual earnings growth of 9.6% over the next 5 years. Meanwhile, the Automotive Retail industry is expected to see its earnings decline by 9.2% per year over the next few years.