Gigasun AB (publ) (STO:GIGA) Could Be Riskier Than It Looks

Gigasun AB (publ)'s (STO:GIGA) price-to-sales (or "P/S") ratio of 0.8x might make it look like a buy right now compared to the Renewable Energy industry in Sweden, where around half of the companies have P/S ratios above 2.3x and even P/S above 6x are quite common. 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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What Does Gigasun's Recent Performance Look Like?

With its revenue growth in positive territory compared to the declining revenue of most other companies, Gigasun has been doing quite well of late. Perhaps the market is expecting future revenue performance to follow the rest of the industry downwards, which has kept the P/S suppressed. 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 Gigasun's Revenue Growth Trending?

Gigasun'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.

If we review the last year of revenue growth, the company posted a worthy increase of 5.6%. This was backed up an excellent period prior to see revenue up by 54% in total over the last three years. Accordingly, shareholders would have definitely welcomed those medium-term rates of revenue growth.

Shifting to the future, estimates from the one analyst covering the company suggest revenue should grow by 38% over the next year. Meanwhile, the rest of the industry is forecast to only expand by 2.4%, which is noticeably less attractive.

With this information, we find it odd that Gigasun is trading at a P/S lower than the industry. It looks like most investors are not convinced at all that the company can achieve future growth expectations.

What We Can Learn From Gigasun's P/S?

Typically, we'd caution against reading too much into price-to-sales ratios when settling on investment decisions, though it can reveal plenty about what other market participants think about the company.

A look at Gigasun's revenues reveals that, despite glowing future growth forecasts, its P/S is much lower than we'd expect. There could be some major risk factors that are placing downward pressure on the P/S ratio. At least price risks look to be very low, but investors seem to think future revenues could see a lot of volatility.

You need to take note of risks, for example - Gigasun has 2 warning signs (and 1 which is potentially serious) we think you should know about.

If you're unsure about the strength of Gigasun's business, why not explore our interactive list of stocks with solid business fundamentals for some other companies you may have missed.

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