Take Care Before Jumping Onto Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE S.A. (WSE:GKI) Even Though It's 25% Cheaper

Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE S.A. (WSE:GKI) shareholders won't be pleased to see that the share price has had a very rough month, dropping 25% and undoing the prior period's positive performance. Longer-term shareholders would now have taken a real hit with the stock declining 9.7% in the last year.

Since its price has dipped substantially, when close to half the companies operating in Poland's Industrials industry have price-to-sales ratios (or "P/S") above 1.1x, you may consider Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE as an enticing stock to check out with its 0.2x P/S ratio. However, the P/S might be low for a reason and it requires further investigation to determine if it's justified.

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What Does Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE's Recent Performance Look Like?

Recent times have been advantageous for Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE as its revenues have been rising faster than most other companies. It might be that many expect the strong revenue performance to degrade substantially, which has repressed the share price, and thus the P/S ratio. If not, then existing shareholders have reason to be quite optimistic about the future direction of the share price.

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How Is Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE's Revenue Growth Trending?

In order to justify its P/S ratio, Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE would need to produce sluggish growth that's trailing the industry.

If we review the last year of revenue growth, the company posted a worthy increase of 8.6%. This was backed up an excellent period prior to see revenue up by 87% in total over the last three years. Accordingly, shareholders would have definitely welcomed those medium-term rates of revenue growth.

Turning to the outlook, the next year should generate growth of 22% as estimated by the one analyst watching the company. Meanwhile, the rest of the industry is forecast to only expand by 4.4%, which is noticeably less attractive.

With this in consideration, we find it intriguing that Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE's P/S sits behind most of its industry peers. Apparently some shareholders are doubtful of the forecasts and have been accepting significantly lower selling prices.

The Key Takeaway

Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE's recently weak share price has pulled its P/S back below other Industrials companies. 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.

To us, it seems Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE currently trades on a significantly depressed P/S given its forecasted revenue growth is higher than the rest of its industry. When we see strong growth forecasts like this, we can only assume potential risks are what might be placing significant pressure on the P/S ratio. It appears the market could be anticipating revenue instability, because these conditions should normally provide a boost to the share price.

There are also other vital risk factors to consider and we've discovered 3 warning signs for Grupa Kapitalowa IMMOBILE (1 makes us a bit uncomfortable!) that you should be aware of before investing here.

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