RF Industries Valuation

Is RF5 undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

2/6

Valuation Score 2/6

Below Fair Value
Significantly Below Fair Value
Price-To-Sales vs Peers
Price-To-Sales vs Industry
Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio
Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of RF5 when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: RF5 (€3.6) is trading below our estimate of fair value (€4.02)

Significantly Below Fair Value: RF5 is trading below fair value, but not by a significant amount.

Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for RF5?

Key metric: As RF5 is unprofitable we use its Price-To-Sales Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Sales ratio for RF5. This is calculated by dividing RF5's market cap by their current revenue.
What is RF5's PS Ratio?
PS Ratio	0.6x
Sales	US$62.28m
Market Cap	US$41.03m

RF5 key valuation metrics and ratios. From Price to Earnings, Price to Sales and Price to Book to Price to Earnings Growth Ratio, Enterprise Value and EBITDA.
Key Statistics
Enterprise Value/Revenue	1.1x
Enterprise Value/EBITDA	-177.8x
PEG Ratio	n/a

Price to Sales Ratio vs Peers

How does RF5's PS Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PS ratio for RF5 vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
Company	Forward PS	Estimated Growth	Market Cap
Peer Average	0.3x
DAM DATA MODUL Produktion und Vertrieb von elektronischen Systemen	0.4x	6.0%	€93.8m
KTEK KATEK	0.4x	n/a	€284.6m
SYT Softing	0.3x	4.5%	€30.3m
V6C Viscom	0.3x	7.2%	€32.3m
RF5 RF Industries	0.6x	8.8%	€41.0m

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: RF5 is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.6x) compared to the peer average (0.3x).

Price to Sales Ratio vs Industry

How does RF5's PS Ratio compare vs other companies in the DE Electronic Industry?

4 Companies	Price / Sales	Estimated Growth	Market Cap
SCE Schweizer Electronic	0.07x	4.3%	US$10.14m
UDC UniDevice	0.004x	4.6%	US$1.94m
7PF0 Syncro Group	0.01x	n/a	US$389.68k
UDC UniDevice	0.0005x	n/a	US$158.07k

No more companies available in this PS range

4 Companies		Estimated Growth	Market Cap

No more companies

Price-To-Sales vs Industry: RF5 is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.6x) compared to the European Electronic industry average (1x).

Price to Sales Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is RF5's PS Ratio compared to its Fair PS Ratio? This is the expected PS Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

RF5 PS Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PS Ratio	0.6x
Fair PS Ratio	0.3x

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: RF5 is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.6x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.3x).

Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

Analyst Forecast: Insufficient data to show price forecast.

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/17 08:07
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/17 00:00
Earnings	2024/07/31
Annual Earnings	2023/10/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

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Industry and Sector Metrics

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Analyst Sources

RF Industries, Ltd. is covered by 4 analysts. 1 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Michael Nichols	B. Riley Securities, Inc.
Padmasagar Chikkaparappa	Virtua Research Inc.
Harshal Maitrani	Virtua Research Inc.