There Is A Reason Wonderla Holidays Limited's (NSE:WONDERLA) Price Is Undemanding

When close to half the companies in India have price-to-earnings ratios (or "P/E's") above 32x, you may consider Wonderla Holidays Limited (NSE:WONDERLA) as an attractive investment with its 27.3x 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.

With earnings growth that's superior to most other companies of late, Wonderla Holidays has been doing relatively well. One possibility is that the P/E is low because investors think this strong earnings performance might be less impressive moving forward. If not, then existing shareholders have reason to be quite optimistic about the future direction of the share price.

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Is There Any Growth For Wonderla Holidays?

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

Retrospectively, the last year delivered an exceptional 96% gain to the company's bottom line. Although, its longer-term performance hasn't been as strong with three-year EPS growth being relatively non-existent overall. Therefore, it's fair to say that earnings growth has been inconsistent recently for the company.

Shifting to the future, estimates from the three analysts covering the company suggest earnings should grow by 13% per year over the next three years. Meanwhile, the rest of the market is forecast to expand by 19% per year, which is noticeably more attractive.

With this information, we can see why Wonderla Holidays is trading at a P/E lower than the market. Apparently many shareholders weren't comfortable holding on while the company is potentially eyeing a less prosperous future.

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.

As we suspected, our examination of Wonderla Holidays' analyst forecasts revealed that its inferior earnings outlook is contributing to its low P/E. At this stage investors feel the potential for an improvement in earnings isn't great enough to justify a higher P/E ratio. It's hard to see the share price rising strongly in the near future under these circumstances.

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

If you're unsure about the strength of Wonderla Holidays' 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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