Wallbox N.V. (NYSE:WBX) Stock's 30% Dive Might Signal An Opportunity But It Requires Some Scrutiny

To the annoyance of some shareholders, Wallbox N.V. (NYSE:WBX) shares are down a considerable 30% in the last month, which continues a horrid run for the company. For any long-term shareholders, the last month ends a year to forget by locking in a 76% share price decline.

After such a large drop in price, Wallbox may be sending buy signals at present with its price-to-sales (or "P/S") ratio of 0.6x, considering almost half of all companies in the Electrical industry in the United States have P/S ratios greater than 2x and even P/S higher than 6x aren't out of the ordinary. Although, it's not wise to just take the P/S at face value as there may be an explanation why it's limited.

Check out our latest analysis for Wallbox

How Wallbox Has Been Performing

Recent times have been advantageous for Wallbox as its revenues have been rising faster than most other companies. Perhaps the market is expecting future revenue performance to dive, 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.

Keen to find out how analysts think Wallbox's future stacks up against the industry? In that case, our free report is a great place to start.

Do Revenue Forecasts Match The Low P/S Ratio?

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

If we review the last year of revenue growth, the company posted a terrific increase of 16%. Spectacularly, three year revenue growth has ballooned by several orders of magnitude, thanks in part to the last 12 months of revenue growth. Therefore, it's fair to say the revenue growth recently has been superb for the company.

Turning to the outlook, the next three years should generate growth of 41% per annum as estimated by the three analysts watching the company. With the industry only predicted to deliver 25% each year, the company is positioned for a stronger revenue result.

In light of this, it's peculiar that Wallbox's P/S sits below the majority of other companies. It looks like most investors are not convinced at all that the company can achieve future growth expectations.

The Key Takeaway

Wallbox's recently weak share price has pulled its P/S back below other Electrical companies. 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.

To us, it seems Wallbox currently trades on a significantly depressed P/S given its forecasted revenue growth is higher than the rest of its industry. The reason for this depressed P/S could potentially be found in the risks the market is pricing in. At least price risks look to be very low, but investors seem to think future revenues could see a lot of volatility.

And what about other risks? Every company has them, and we've spotted 3 warning signs for Wallbox you should know about.

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