Slammed 27% SAR Televenture Limited (NSE:SARTELE) Screens Well Here But There Might Be A Catch

Unfortunately for some shareholders, the SAR Televenture Limited (NSE:SARTELE) share price has dived 27% in the last thirty days, prolonging recent pain. Instead of being rewarded, shareholders who have already held through the last twelve months are now sitting on a 12% share price drop.

Although its price has dipped substantially, SAR Televenture may still be sending bullish signals at the moment with its price-to-earnings (or "P/E") ratio of 20.1x, since almost half of all companies in India have P/E ratios greater than 26x and even P/E's higher than 50x are not unusual. Although, it's not wise to just take the P/E at face value as there may be an explanation why it's limited.

For example, consider that SAR Televenture's financial performance has been poor lately as its earnings have been in decline. It might be that many expect the disappointing earnings performance to continue or accelerate, 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 SAR Televenture's Growth Trending?

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

Retrospectively, the last year delivered a frustrating 15% decrease to the company's bottom line. Still, the latest three year period has seen an excellent 2,817% overall rise in EPS, in spite of its unsatisfying short-term performance. Accordingly, while they would have preferred to keep the run going, shareholders would probably welcome the medium-term rates of earnings growth.

Comparing that to the market, which is only predicted to deliver 25% growth in the next 12 months, the company's momentum is stronger based on recent medium-term annualised earnings results.

In light of this, it's peculiar that SAR Televenture's P/E sits below the majority of other companies. It looks like most investors are not convinced the company can maintain its recent growth rates.

The Final Word

The softening of SAR Televenture's shares means its P/E is now sitting at a pretty low level. 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.

We've established that SAR Televenture currently trades on a much lower than expected P/E since its recent three-year growth is higher than the wider market forecast. There could be some major unobserved threats to earnings preventing the P/E ratio from matching this positive performance. At least price risks look to be very low if recent medium-term earnings trends continue, but investors seem to think future earnings could see a lot of volatility.

We don't want to rain on the parade too much, but we did also find 3 warning signs for SAR Televenture (2 can't be ignored!) that you need to be mindful of.

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