Interlink Electronics, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:LINK) 27% Jump Shows Its Popularity With Investors

Despite an already strong run, Interlink Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:LINK) shares have been powering on, with a gain of 27% in the last thirty days. The annual gain comes to 215% following the latest surge, making investors sit up and take notice.

Following the firm bounce in price, you could be forgiven for thinking Interlink Electronics is a stock to steer clear of with a price-to-sales ratios (or "P/S") of 9.3x, considering almost half the companies in the United States' Electronic industry have P/S ratios below 2.5x. Nonetheless, we'd need to dig a little deeper to determine if there is a rational basis for the highly elevated P/S.

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What Does Interlink Electronics' P/S Mean For Shareholders?

Interlink Electronics could be doing better as its revenue has been going backwards lately while most other companies have been seeing positive revenue growth. It might be that many expect the dour revenue performance to recover substantially, which has kept the P/S from collapsing. You'd really hope so, otherwise you're paying a pretty hefty price for no particular reason.

What Are Revenue Growth Metrics Telling Us About The High P/S?

Interlink Electronics' P/S ratio would be typical for a company that's expected to deliver very strong growth, and importantly, perform much better than the industry.

Taking a look back first, the company's revenue growth last year wasn't something to get excited about as it posted a disappointing decline of 7.1%. However, a few very strong years before that means that it was still able to grow revenue by an impressive 49% in total over the last three years. So we can start by confirming that the company has generally done a very good job of growing revenue over that time, even though it had some hiccups along the way.

Shifting to the future, estimates from the one analyst covering the company suggest revenue should grow by 24% over the next year. With the industry only predicted to deliver 13%, the company is positioned for a stronger revenue result.

With this in mind, it's not hard to understand why Interlink Electronics' P/S is high relative to its industry peers. Apparently shareholders aren't keen to offload something that is potentially eyeing a more prosperous future.

The Bottom Line On Interlink Electronics' P/S

The strong share price surge has lead to Interlink Electronics' P/S soaring as well. 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.

Our look into Interlink Electronics shows that its P/S ratio remains high on the merit of its strong future revenues. At this stage investors feel the potential for a deterioration in revenues is quite remote, justifying the elevated P/S ratio. It's hard to see the share price falling strongly in the near future under these circumstances.

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