Investors Interested In TVS Supply Chain Solutions Limited's (NSE:TVSSCS) Revenues

There wouldn't be many who think TVS Supply Chain Solutions Limited's (NSE:TVSSCS) price-to-sales (or "P/S") ratio of 0.9x is worth a mention when the median P/S for the Logistics industry in India is very similar. Although, it's not wise to simply ignore the P/S without explanation as investors may be disregarding a distinct opportunity or a costly mistake.

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How Has TVS Supply Chain Solutions Performed Recently?

TVS Supply Chain Solutions could be doing better as its revenue has been going backwards lately while most other companies have been seeing positive revenue growth. One possibility is that the P/S ratio is moderate because investors think this poor revenue performance will turn around. You'd really hope so, otherwise you're paying a relatively elevated price for a company with this sort of growth profile.

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How Is TVS Supply Chain Solutions' Revenue Growth Trending?

There's an inherent assumption that a company should be matching the industry for P/S ratios like TVS Supply Chain Solutions' to be considered reasonable.

Retrospectively, the last year delivered a frustrating 10% decrease to the company's top line. However, a few very strong years before that means that it was still able to grow revenue by an impressive 35% in total over the last three years. Although it's been a bumpy ride, it's still fair to say the revenue growth recently has been more than adequate for the company.

Shifting to the future, estimates from the sole analyst covering the company suggest revenue should grow by 14% over the next year. Meanwhile, the rest of the industry is forecast to expand by 15%, which is not materially different.

With this information, we can see why TVS Supply Chain Solutions is trading at a fairly similar P/S to the industry. Apparently shareholders are comfortable to simply hold on while the company is keeping a low profile.

The Key Takeaway

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

We've seen that TVS Supply Chain Solutions maintains an adequate P/S seeing as its revenue growth figures match the rest of the industry. Right now shareholders are comfortable with the P/S as they are quite confident future revenue won't throw up any surprises. All things considered, if the P/S and revenue estimates contain no major shocks, then it's hard to see the share price moving strongly in either direction in the near future.

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