Market Cool On Genus Power Infrastructures Limited's (NSE:GENUSPOWER) Earnings

When close to half the companies in India have price-to-earnings ratios (or "P/E's") above 28x, you may consider Genus Power Infrastructures Limited (NSE:GENUSPOWER) as an attractive investment with its 22.8x P/E ratio. Although, it's not wise to just take the P/E at face value as there may be an explanation why it's limited.

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Recent times have been advantageous for Genus Power Infrastructures as its earnings have been rising faster than most other companies. It might be that many expect the strong earnings performance to degrade substantially, which has repressed the P/E. 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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How Is Genus Power Infrastructures' Growth Trending?

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

Taking a look back first, we see that the company grew earnings per share by an impressive 222% last year. The strong recent performance means it was also able to grow EPS by 624% in total over the last three years. So we can start by confirming that the company has done a great job of growing earnings over that time.

Shifting to the future, estimates from the two analysts covering the company suggest earnings should grow by 17% each year over the next three years. With the market predicted to deliver 19% growth per year, the company is positioned for a comparable earnings result.

With this information, we find it odd that Genus Power Infrastructures is trading at a P/E lower than the market. It may be that most investors are not convinced the company can achieve future growth expectations.

The Final Word

We'd say the price-to-earnings ratio's power isn't primarily as a valuation instrument but rather to gauge current investor sentiment and future expectations.

Our examination of Genus Power Infrastructures' analyst forecasts revealed that its market-matching 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 outlook. At least the risk of a price drop looks to be subdued, but investors seem to think future earnings could see some volatility.

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