It's A Story Of Risk Vs Reward With Vimab Group AB (publ) (STO:VIMAB)

With a median price-to-sales (or "P/S") ratio of close to 0.6x in the Professional Services industry in Sweden, you could be forgiven for feeling indifferent about Vimab Group AB (publ)'s (STO:VIMAB) P/S ratio, which comes in at about the same. 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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How Vimab Group Has Been Performing

For instance, Vimab Group's receding revenue in recent times would have to be some food for thought. Perhaps investors believe the recent revenue performance is enough to keep in line with the industry, which is keeping the P/S from dropping off. If not, then existing shareholders may be a little nervous about the viability of the share price.

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Is There Some Revenue Growth Forecasted For Vimab Group?

There's an inherent assumption that a company should be matching the industry for P/S ratios like Vimab Group's to be considered reasonable.

Retrospectively, the last year delivered a frustrating 21% decrease to the company's top line. Still, the latest three year period has seen an excellent 41% overall rise in revenue, in spite of its unsatisfying short-term performance. Accordingly, while they would have preferred to keep the run going, shareholders would definitely welcome the medium-term rates of revenue growth.

This is in contrast to the rest of the industry, which is expected to grow by 3.2% over the next year, materially lower than the company's recent medium-term annualised growth rates.

With this information, we find it interesting that Vimab Group is trading at a fairly similar P/S compared to the industry. It may be that most investors are not convinced the company can maintain its recent growth rates.

The Final Word

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.

We've established that Vimab Group currently trades on a lower than expected P/S since its recent three-year growth is higher than the wider industry forecast. It'd be fair to assume that potential risks the company faces could be the contributing factor to the lower than expected P/S. At least the risk of a price drop looks to be subdued if recent medium-term revenue trends continue, but investors seem to think future revenue could see some volatility.

And what about other risks? Every company has them, and we've spotted 4 warning signs for Vimab Group (of which 3 are a bit unpleasant!) you should know about.

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