A Piece Of The Puzzle Missing From INFINITT Healthcare Co., Ltd.'s (KOSDAQ:071200) 30% Share Price Climb

INFINITT Healthcare Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ:071200) shares have continued their recent momentum with a 30% gain in the last month alone. Looking further back, the 17% rise over the last twelve months isn't too bad notwithstanding the strength over the last 30 days.

Although its price has surged higher, given about half the companies in Korea have price-to-earnings ratios (or "P/E's") above 12x, you may still consider INFINITT Healthcare as a highly attractive investment with its 3.3x P/E ratio. However, the P/E might be quite low for a reason and it requires further investigation to determine if it's justified.

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INFINITT Healthcare certainly has been doing a great job lately as it's been growing earnings at a really rapid pace. It might be that many expect the strong earnings performance to degrade substantially, which has repressed the P/E. If that doesn't eventuate, then existing shareholders have reason to be quite optimistic about the future direction of the share price.

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How Is INFINITT Healthcare's Growth Trending?

INFINITT Healthcare's P/E ratio would be typical for a company that's expected to deliver very poor growth or even falling earnings, and importantly, perform much worse than the market.

If we review the last year of earnings growth, the company posted a terrific increase of 130%. The strong recent performance means it was also able to grow EPS by 103% in total over the last three years. Accordingly, shareholders would have probably welcomed those medium-term rates of earnings growth.

Comparing that to the market, which is only predicted to deliver 19% 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 INFINITT Healthcare'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.

What We Can Learn From INFINITT Healthcare's P/E?

INFINITT Healthcare's recent share price jump still sees its P/E sitting firmly flat on the ground. 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 INFINITT Healthcare revealed its three-year earnings trends aren't contributing to its P/E anywhere near as much as we would have predicted, given they look better than current market expectations. 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.

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Of course, you might also be able to find a better stock than INFINITT Healthcare. 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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