There's No Escaping GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent Technology Co.,Ltd's (SZSE:300176) Muted Revenues Despite A 25% Share Price Rise

GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent Technology Co.,Ltd (SZSE:300176) shareholders are no doubt pleased to see that the share price has bounced 25% in the last month, although it is still struggling to make up recently lost ground. Not all shareholders will be feeling jubilant, since the share price is still down a very disappointing 26% in the last twelve months.

Even after such a large jump in price, considering around half the companies operating in China's Auto Components industry have price-to-sales ratios (or "P/S") above 2.3x, you may still consider GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent TechnologyLtd as an solid investment opportunity with its 1.1x P/S ratio. However, the P/S might be low for a reason and it requires further investigation to determine if it's justified.

See our latest analysis for GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent TechnologyLtd

How GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent TechnologyLtd Has Been Performing

Revenue has risen firmly for GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent TechnologyLtd recently, which is pleasing to see. Perhaps the market is expecting this acceptable revenue performance to take a dive, which has kept the P/S suppressed. If that doesn't eventuate, then existing shareholders have reason to be optimistic about the future direction of the share price.

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

Do Revenue Forecasts Match The Low P/S Ratio?

There's an inherent assumption that a company should underperform the industry for P/S ratios like GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent TechnologyLtd's to be considered reasonable.

If we review the last year of revenue growth, the company posted a worthy increase of 10%. Pleasingly, revenue has also lifted 40% in aggregate from three years ago, partly thanks to the last 12 months of growth. Therefore, it's fair to say the revenue growth recently has been superb for the company.

This is in contrast to the rest of the industry, which is expected to grow by 25% over the next year, materially higher than the company's recent medium-term annualised growth rates.

In light of this, it's understandable that GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent TechnologyLtd's P/S sits below the majority of other companies. Apparently many shareholders weren't comfortable holding on to something they believe will continue to trail the wider industry.

The Key Takeaway

Despite GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent TechnologyLtd's share price climbing recently, its P/S still lags most other companies. 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.

As we suspected, our examination of GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent TechnologyLtd revealed its three-year revenue trends are contributing to its low P/S, given they look worse than current industry expectations. At this stage investors feel the potential for an improvement in revenue isn't great enough to justify a higher P/S ratio. Unless the recent medium-term conditions improve, they will continue to form a barrier for the share price around these levels.

We don't want to rain on the parade too much, but we did also find 3 warning signs for GuangDong PaiSheng Intelligent TechnologyLtd (1 makes us a bit uncomfortable!) that you need to be mindful of.

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