Investors Still Waiting For A Pull Back In Elin Electronics Limited (NSE:ELIN)

When close to half the companies in India have price-to-earnings ratios (or "P/E's") below 27x, you may consider Elin Electronics Limited (NSE:ELIN) as a stock to avoid entirely with its 54.9x P/E ratio. Nonetheless, we'd need to dig a little deeper to determine if there is a rational basis for the highly elevated P/E.

While the market has experienced earnings growth lately, Elin Electronics' earnings have gone into reverse gear, which is not great. It might be that many expect the dour earnings performance to recover substantially, which has kept the P/E from collapsing. If not, then existing shareholders may be extremely nervous about the viability of the share price.

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Is There Enough Growth For Elin Electronics?

Elin Electronics' P/E ratio would be typical for a company that's expected to deliver very strong growth, and importantly, perform much better than the market.

Taking a look back first, the company's earnings per share growth last year wasn't something to get excited about as it posted a disappointing decline of 72%. As a result, earnings from three years ago have also fallen 72% overall. Therefore, it's fair to say the earnings growth recently has been undesirable for the company.

Shifting to the future, estimates from the one analyst covering the company suggest earnings should grow by 188% over the next year. With the market only predicted to deliver 24%, the company is positioned for a stronger earnings result.

With this information, we can see why Elin Electronics is trading at such a high P/E compared to the market. It seems most investors are expecting this strong future growth and are willing to pay more for the stock.

The Key Takeaway

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 Elin Electronics' analyst forecasts revealed that its superior earnings outlook is contributing to its high P/E. Right now shareholders are comfortable with the P/E as they are quite confident future earnings aren't under threat. It's hard to see the share price falling strongly in the near future under these circumstances.

We don't want to rain on the parade too much, but we did also find 3 warning signs for Elin Electronics that you need to be mindful of.

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