Investors Aren't Entirely Convinced By Vaidya Sane Ayurved Laboratories Limited's (NSE:MADHAVBAUG) Revenues

With a price-to-sales (or "P/S") ratio of 1.6x Vaidya Sane Ayurved Laboratories Limited (NSE:MADHAVBAUG) may be sending very bullish signals at the moment, given that almost half of all the Healthcare companies in India have P/S ratios greater than 4.4x and even P/S higher than 7x are not unusual. Nonetheless, we'd need to dig a little deeper to determine if there is a rational basis for the highly reduced P/S.

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What Does Vaidya Sane Ayurved Laboratories' Recent Performance Look Like?

We'd have to say that with no tangible growth over the last year, Vaidya Sane Ayurved Laboratories' revenue has been unimpressive. Perhaps the market believes the recent lacklustre revenue performance is a sign of future underperformance relative to industry peers, hurting the P/S. Those who are bullish on Vaidya Sane Ayurved Laboratories will be hoping that this isn't the case, so that they can pick up the stock at a lower valuation.

We don't have analyst forecasts, but you can see how recent trends are setting up the company for the future by checking out our free report on Vaidya Sane Ayurved Laboratories' earnings, revenue and cash flow.

How Is Vaidya Sane Ayurved Laboratories' Revenue Growth Trending?

There's an inherent assumption that a company should far underperform the industry for P/S ratios like Vaidya Sane Ayurved Laboratories' to be considered reasonable.

If we review the last year of revenue, the company posted a result that saw barely any deviation from a year ago. Although pleasingly revenue has lifted 90% in aggregate from three years ago, notwithstanding the last 12 months. Therefore, it's fair to say the revenue growth recently has been great for the company, but investors will want to ask why it has slowed to such an extent.

Comparing that to the industry, which is predicted to deliver 25% growth in the next 12 months, the company's momentum is pretty similar based on recent medium-term annualised revenue results.

In light of this, it's peculiar that Vaidya Sane Ayurved Laboratories' P/S sits below the majority of other companies. Apparently some shareholders are more bearish than recent times would indicate and have been accepting lower selling prices.

The Key Takeaway

Generally, our preference is to limit the use of the price-to-sales ratio to establishing what the market thinks about the overall health of a company.

Our examination of Vaidya Sane Ayurved Laboratories revealed its three-year revenue trends looking similar to current industry expectations hasn't given the P/S the boost we expected, given that it's lower than the wider industry P/S, There could be some unobserved threats to revenue preventing the P/S ratio from matching the company's performance. medium-term

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