Revenues Tell The Story For Fuji Oil Holdings Inc. (TSE:2607)

With a median price-to-sales (or "P/S") ratio of close to 0.6x in the Food industry in Japan, you could be forgiven for feeling indifferent about Fuji Oil Holdings Inc.'s (TSE:2607) P/S ratio of 0.5x. While this might not raise any eyebrows, if the P/S ratio is not justified investors could be missing out on a potential opportunity or ignoring looming disappointment.

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What Does Fuji Oil Holdings' Recent Performance Look Like?

There hasn't been much to differentiate Fuji Oil Holdings' and the industry's revenue growth lately. Perhaps the market is expecting future revenue performance to show no drastic signs of changing, justifying the P/S being at current levels. Those who are bullish on Fuji Oil Holdings will be hoping that revenue performance can pick up, so that they can pick up the stock at a slightly lower valuation.

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Is There Some Revenue Growth Forecasted For Fuji Oil Holdings?

Fuji Oil Holdings' P/S ratio would be typical for a company that's only expected to deliver moderate growth, and importantly, perform in line with the industry.

Retrospectively, the last year delivered a decent 8.7% gain to the company's revenues. Pleasingly, revenue has also lifted 54% in aggregate from three years ago, partly thanks to the last 12 months of growth. Accordingly, shareholders would have definitely welcomed those medium-term rates of revenue growth.

Shifting to the future, estimates from the five analysts covering the company suggest revenue should grow by 3.5% per annum over the next three years. Meanwhile, the rest of the industry is forecast to expand by 4.0% per annum, which is not materially different.

With this information, we can see why Fuji Oil Holdings is trading at a fairly similar P/S to the industry. It seems most investors are expecting to see average future growth and are only willing to pay a moderate amount for the stock.

What Does Fuji Oil Holdings' P/S Mean For Investors?

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.

A Fuji Oil Holdings' P/S seems about right to us given the knowledge that analysts are forecasting a revenue outlook that is similar to the Food industry. At this stage investors feel the potential for an improvement or deterioration in revenue isn't great enough to push P/S in a higher or lower direction. Unless these conditions change, they will continue to support the share price at these levels.

It is also worth noting that we have found 1 warning sign for Fuji Oil Holdings that you need to take into consideration.

Of course, profitable companies with a history of great earnings growth are generally safer bets. So you may wish to see this free collection of other companies that have reasonable P/E ratios and have grown earnings strongly.

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