Even With A 114% Surge, Cautious Investors Are Not Rewarding Ultra Wiring Connectivity System Limited's (NSE:UWCSL) Performance Completely

Ultra Wiring Connectivity System Limited (NSE:UWCSL) shareholders would be excited to see that the share price has had a great month, posting a 114% gain and recovering from prior weakness. Looking back a bit further, it's encouraging to see the stock is up 57% in the last year.

Although its price has surged higher, Ultra Wiring Connectivity System's price-to-earnings (or "P/E") ratio of 23.3x might still make it look like a buy right now compared to the market in India, where around half of the companies have P/E ratios above 33x and even P/E's above 63x are quite common. However, the P/E might be low for a reason and it requires further investigation to determine if it's justified.

With earnings growth that's exceedingly strong of late, Ultra Wiring Connectivity System has been doing very well. One possibility is that the P/E is low because investors think this strong earnings growth might actually underperform the broader market in the near future. 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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Is There Any Growth For Ultra Wiring Connectivity System?

There's an inherent assumption that a company should underperform the market for P/E ratios like Ultra Wiring Connectivity System's to be considered reasonable.

If we review the last year of earnings growth, the company posted a terrific increase of 109%. Pleasingly, EPS has also lifted 253% in aggregate from three years ago, thanks to the last 12 months of growth. Therefore, it's fair to say the earnings growth recently has been superb for the company.

This is in contrast to the rest of the market, which is expected to grow by 26% over the next year, materially lower than the company's recent medium-term annualised growth rates.

With this information, we find it odd that Ultra Wiring Connectivity System 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.

The Key Takeaway

Ultra Wiring Connectivity System's stock might have been given a solid boost, but its P/E certainly hasn't reached any great heights. It's argued the price-to-earnings ratio is an inferior measure of value within certain industries, but it can be a powerful business sentiment indicator.

We've established that Ultra Wiring Connectivity System currently trades on a much lower than expected P/E since its recent three-year growth is higher than the wider market forecast. When we see strong earnings with faster-than-market growth, we assume potential risks are what might be placing significant pressure on the P/E ratio. 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.

You need to take note of risks, for example - Ultra Wiring Connectivity System has 2 warning signs (and 1 which doesn't sit too well with us) we think you should know about.

Of course, you might also be able to find a better stock than Ultra Wiring Connectivity System. 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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