Positive Sentiment Still Eludes Battery Mineral Resources Corp. (CVE:BMR) Following 27% Share Price Slump

The Battery Mineral Resources Corp. (CVE:BMR) share price has softened a substantial 27% over the previous 30 days, handing back much of the gains the stock has made lately. Of course, over the longer-term many would still wish they owned shares as the stock's price has soared 128% in the last twelve months.

Since its price has dipped substantially, Battery Mineral Resources may be sending very bullish signals at the moment with its price-to-sales (or "P/S") ratio of 0.3x, since almost half of all companies in the Metals and Mining industry in Canada have P/S ratios greater than 5.7x and even P/S higher than 41x are not unusual. However, the P/S might be quite low for a reason and it requires further investigation to determine if it's justified.

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How Has Battery Mineral Resources Performed Recently?

With revenue growth that's exceedingly strong of late, Battery Mineral Resources has been doing very well. Perhaps the market is expecting future revenue performance to dwindle, which has kept the P/S suppressed. If that doesn't eventuate, then existing shareholders have reason to be quite optimistic about the future direction of the share price.

Although there are no analyst estimates available for Battery Mineral Resources, take a look at this free data-rich visualisation to see how the company stacks up on earnings, revenue and cash flow.

How Is Battery Mineral Resources' Revenue Growth Trending?

There's an inherent assumption that a company should far underperform the industry for P/S ratios like Battery Mineral Resources' to be considered reasonable.

If we review the last year of revenue growth, we see the company's revenues grew exponentially. Spectacularly, three year revenue growth has also set the world alight, thanks to the last 12 months of incredible growth. So we can start by confirming that the company has done a tremendous job of growing revenue over that time.

This is in contrast to the rest of the industry, which is expected to grow by 50% over the next year, materially lower than the company's recent medium-term annualised growth rates.

In light of this, it's peculiar that Battery Mineral Resources' 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 Key Takeaway

Shares in Battery Mineral Resources have plummeted and its P/S has followed suit. Generally, our preference is to limit the use of the price-to-sales ratio to establishing what the market thinks about the overall health of a company.

We're very surprised to see Battery Mineral Resources currently trading on a much lower than expected P/S since its recent three-year growth is higher than the wider industry forecast. When we see robust revenue growth that outpaces the industry, we presume that there are notable underlying risks to the company's future performance, which is exerting downward pressure on the P/S ratio. While recent revenue trends over the past medium-term suggest that the risk of a price decline is low, investors appear to perceive a likelihood of revenue fluctuations in the future.

There are also other vital risk factors to consider and we've discovered 5 warning signs for Battery Mineral Resources (4 are significant!) that you should be aware of before investing here.

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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