Market Participants Recognise Grupo Traxión, S.A.B. de C.V.'s (BMV:TRAXIONA) Earnings

With a price-to-earnings (or "P/E") ratio of 14.1x Grupo Traxión, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV:TRAXIONA) may be sending bearish signals at the moment, given that almost half of all companies in Mexico have P/E ratios under 11x and even P/E's lower than 7x are not unusual. Nonetheless, we'd need to dig a little deeper to determine if there is a rational basis for the elevated P/E.

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Grupo Traxión. de's earnings growth of late has been pretty similar to most other companies. It might be that many expect the mediocre earnings performance to strengthen positively, which has kept the P/E from falling. If not, then existing shareholders may be a little nervous about the viability of the share price.

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Does Growth Match The High P/E?

There's an inherent assumption that a company should outperform the market for P/E ratios like Grupo Traxión. de's to be considered reasonable.

If we review the last year of earnings, the company posted a result that saw barely any deviation from a year ago. The lack of growth did nothing to help the company's aggregate three-year performance, which is an unsavory 19% drop in EPS. Accordingly, shareholders would have felt downbeat about the medium-term rates of earnings growth.

Shifting to the future, estimates from the four analysts covering the company suggest earnings should grow by 42% per year over the next three years. Meanwhile, the rest of the market is forecast to only expand by 13% per year, which is noticeably less attractive.

In light of this, it's understandable that Grupo Traxión. de's P/E sits above the majority of other companies. It seems most investors are expecting this strong future growth and are willing to pay more for the stock.

The Bottom Line On Grupo Traxión. de's P/E

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 Grupo Traxión. de maintains its high P/E on the strength of its forecast growth being higher than the wider market, as expected. At this stage investors feel the potential for a deterioration in earnings isn't great enough to justify a lower P/E ratio. Unless these conditions change, they will continue to provide strong support to the share price.

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