It's A Story Of Risk Vs Reward With Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group Co., LTD. (SZSE:002204)

When close to half the companies in China have price-to-earnings ratios (or "P/E's") above 27x, you may consider Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group Co., LTD. (SZSE:002204) as an attractive investment with its 19.3x P/E ratio. Nonetheless, we'd need to dig a little deeper to determine if there is a rational basis for the reduced P/E.

Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group has been doing a good job lately as it's been growing earnings at a solid pace. It might be that many expect the respectable earnings performance to degrade substantially, which has repressed the P/E. 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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How Is Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group's Growth Trending?

Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group's P/E ratio would be typical for a company that's only expected to deliver limited growth, and importantly, perform worse than the market.

Retrospectively, the last year delivered an exceptional 20% gain to the company's bottom line. The latest three year period has also seen an excellent 353% overall rise in EPS, aided by its short-term performance. So we can start by confirming that the company has done a great job of growing earnings over that time.

This is in contrast to the rest of the market, which is expected to grow by 36% over the next year, materially lower than the company's recent medium-term annualised growth rates.

With this information, we find it odd that Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group is trading at a P/E lower than the market. Apparently some shareholders believe the recent performance has exceeded its limits and have been accepting significantly lower selling prices.

What We Can Learn From Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group's P/E?

Typically, we'd caution against reading too much into price-to-earnings ratios when settling on investment decisions, though it can reveal plenty about what other market participants think about the company.

We've established that Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group currently trades on a much lower than expected P/E since its recent three-year growth is higher than the wider market forecast. There could be some major unobserved threats to earnings preventing the P/E ratio from matching this positive performance. It appears many are indeed anticipating earnings instability, because the persistence of these recent medium-term conditions would normally provide a boost to the share price.

And what about other risks? Every company has them, and we've spotted 2 warning signs for Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group (of which 1 is potentially serious!) you should know about.

If you're unsure about the strength of Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group's business, why not explore our interactive list of stocks with solid business fundamentals for some other companies you may have missed.

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