Even With A 79% Surge, Cautious Investors Are Not Rewarding Mighty Craft Limited's (ASX:MCL) Performance Completely

Mighty Craft Limited (ASX:MCL) shareholders would be excited to see that the share price has had a great month, posting a 79% gain and recovering from prior weakness. Still, the 30-day jump doesn't change the fact that longer term shareholders have seen their stock decimated by the 84% share price drop in the last twelve months.

Even after such a large jump in price, when close to half the companies operating in Australia's Hospitality industry have price-to-sales ratios (or "P/S") above 1.5x, you may still consider Mighty Craft as an enticing stock to check out with its 0.1x P/S ratio. Although, it's not wise to just take the P/S at face value as there may be an explanation why it's limited.

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How Mighty Craft Has Been Performing

With revenue growth that's exceedingly strong of late, Mighty Craft has been doing very well. It might be that many expect the strong revenue performance to degrade substantially, which has repressed the P/S ratio. 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 out of favour.

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What Are Revenue Growth Metrics Telling Us About The Low P/S?

Mighty Craft's P/S ratio would be typical for a company that's only expected to deliver limited growth, and importantly, perform worse than the industry.

Taking a look back first, we see that the company grew revenue by an impressive 60% last year. The latest three year period has also seen an incredible overall rise in revenue, aided by its incredible short-term performance. So we can start by confirming that the company has done a tremendous job of growing revenue over that time.

When compared to the industry's one-year growth forecast of 8.7%, the most recent medium-term revenue trajectory is noticeably more alluring

In light of this, it's peculiar that Mighty Craft's P/S sits below the majority of other companies. Apparently some shareholders believe the recent performance has exceeded its limits and have been accepting significantly lower selling prices.

The Bottom Line On Mighty Craft's P/S

The latest share price surge wasn't enough to lift Mighty Craft's P/S close to the industry median. Typically, we'd caution against reading too much into price-to-sales ratios when settling on investment decisions, though it can reveal plenty about what other market participants think about the company.

Our examination of Mighty Craft revealed its three-year revenue trends aren't boosting its P/S anywhere near as much as we would have predicted, given they look better than current industry expectations. Potential investors that are sceptical over continued revenue performance may be preventing the P/S ratio from matching previous strong performance. It appears many are indeed anticipating revenue instability, because the persistence of these recent medium-term conditions would normally provide a boost to the share price.

There are also other vital risk factors to consider before investing and we've discovered 4 warning signs for Mighty Craft that you should be aware of.

If companies with solid past earnings growth is up your alley, you may wish to see this free collection of other companies with strong earnings growth and low P/E ratios.

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