Not Many Are Piling Into KBIO COMPANY Inc. (KOSDAQ:038530) Just Yet

With a price-to-sales (or "P/S") ratio of 0.3x KBIO COMPANY Inc. (KOSDAQ:038530) may be sending bullish signals at the moment, given that almost half of all the Semiconductor companies in Korea have P/S ratios greater than 1.6x and even P/S higher than 4x are not unusual. Although, it's not wise to just take the P/S at face value as there may be an explanation why it's limited.

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How Has KBIO Performed Recently?

KBIO certainly has been doing a great job lately as it's been growing its revenue at a really rapid pace. Perhaps the market is expecting future revenue performance to dwindle, which has kept the P/S suppressed. 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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What Are Revenue Growth Metrics Telling Us About The Low P/S?

KBIO's P/S ratio would be typical for a company that's only expected to deliver limited growth, and importantly, perform worse than the industry.

Retrospectively, the last year delivered an exceptional 71% gain to the company's top line. The strong recent performance means it was also able to grow revenue by 255% in total over the last three years. Therefore, it's fair to say the revenue growth recently has been superb for the company.

This is in contrast to the rest of the industry, which is expected to grow by 42% over the next year, materially lower than the company's recent medium-term annualised growth rates.

With this in mind, we find it intriguing that KBIO's P/S isn't as high compared to that of its industry peers. Apparently some shareholders believe the recent performance has exceeded its limits and have been accepting significantly lower selling prices.

The Bottom Line On KBIO's P/S

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.

Our examination of KBIO revealed its three-year revenue trends aren't boosting its P/S anywhere near as much as we would have predicted, given they look better than current industry expectations. When we see strong revenue with faster-than-industry growth, we assume there are some significant underlying risks to the company's ability to make money which is applying downwards pressure on the P/S ratio. While recent revenue trends over the past medium-term suggest that the risk of a price decline is low, investors appear to perceive a likelihood of revenue fluctuations in the future.

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

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