Rolex Rings Limited (NSE:ROLEXRINGS) Doing What It Can To Lift Shares

With a median price-to-earnings (or "P/E") ratio of close to 27x in India, you could be forgiven for feeling indifferent about Rolex Rings Limited's (NSE:ROLEXRINGS) P/E ratio of 26.6x. However, investors might be overlooking a clear opportunity or potential setback if there is no rational basis for the P/E.

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Rolex Rings could be doing better as its earnings have been going backwards lately while most other companies have been seeing positive earnings growth. One possibility is that the P/E is moderate because investors think this poor earnings performance will turn around. If not, then existing shareholders may be a little nervous about the viability of the share price.

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Does Growth Match The P/E?

Rolex Rings' P/E ratio would be typical for a company that's only expected to deliver moderate growth, and importantly, perform in line with the market.

If we review the last year of earnings, dishearteningly the company's profits fell to the tune of 20%. This has erased any of its gains during the last three years, with practically no change in EPS being achieved in total. Accordingly, shareholders probably wouldn't have been overly satisfied with the unstable medium-term growth rates.

Looking ahead now, EPS is anticipated to climb by 47% during the coming year according to the four analysts following the company. That's shaping up to be materially higher than the 24% growth forecast for the broader market.

With this information, we find it interesting that Rolex Rings is trading at a fairly similar P/E to the market. Apparently some shareholders are skeptical of the forecasts and have been accepting lower selling prices.

The Final Word

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.

Our examination of Rolex Rings' analyst forecasts revealed that its superior earnings outlook isn't contributing to its P/E as much as we would have predicted. There could be some unobserved threats to earnings preventing the P/E ratio from matching the positive outlook. At least the risk of a price drop looks to be subdued, but investors seem to think future earnings could see some volatility.

It is also worth noting that we have found 1 warning sign for Rolex Rings that you need to take into consideration.

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