Flux Power Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLUX) shareholders are no doubt pleased to see that the share price has bounced 27% in the last month, although it is still struggling to make up recently lost ground. Unfortunately, the gains of the last month did little to right the losses of the last year with the stock still down 24% over that time.
Although its price has surged higher, Flux Power Holdings may still be sending buy signals at present with its price-to-sales (or "P/S") ratio of 1.1x, considering almost half of all companies in the Electrical industry in the United States have P/S ratios greater than 1.8x and even P/S higher than 4x 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.
How Flux Power Holdings Has Been Performing
While the industry has experienced revenue growth lately, Flux Power Holdings' revenue has gone into reverse gear, which is not great. Perhaps the P/S remains low as investors think the prospects of strong revenue growth aren't on the horizon. If you still like the company, you'd be hoping this isn't the case so that you could potentially pick up some stock while it's out of favour.
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What Are Revenue Growth Metrics Telling Us About The Low P/S?
The only time you'd be truly comfortable seeing a P/S as low as Flux Power Holdings' is when the company's growth is on track to lag the industry.
Retrospectively, the last year delivered a frustrating 2.2% decrease to the company's top line. However, a few very strong years before that means that it was still able to grow revenue by an impressive 164% in total over the last three years. Accordingly, while they would have preferred to keep the run going, shareholders would definitely welcome the medium-term rates of revenue growth.
Turning to the outlook, the next three years should generate growth of 26% per annum as estimated by the five analysts watching the company. Meanwhile, the rest of the industry is forecast to expand by 46% per annum, which is noticeably more attractive.
With this information, we can see why Flux Power Holdings is trading at a P/S lower than the industry. Apparently many shareholders weren't comfortable holding on while the company is potentially eyeing a less prosperous future.
What Does Flux Power Holdings' P/S Mean For Investors?
Flux Power Holdings' stock price has surged recently, but its but its P/S still remains modest. 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.
We've established that Flux Power Holdings maintains its low P/S on the weakness of its forecast growth being lower than the wider industry, as expected. At this stage investors feel the potential for an improvement in revenue isn't great enough to justify a higher P/S ratio. The company will need a change of fortune to justify the P/S rising higher in the future.
It is also worth noting that we have found 5 warning signs for Flux Power Holdings (1 is potentially serious!) that you need to take into consideration.
If these risks are making you reconsider your opinion on Flux Power Holdings, explore our interactive list of high quality stocks to get an idea of what else is out there.
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Flux Power Holdings, Inc. (納斯達克FLUX) 的股東們毫無疑問會很高興看到股價在過去一個月內反彈了27%,儘管它仍在努力彌補最近失去的地盤。不幸的是,上個月的收益對去年的損失沒有起到多少作用,股票的跌幅仍舊爲24%。
儘管Flux Power Holdings的股價上漲,但它目前可能仍在發出買入信號,因爲它的市銷率(或“P/S”比率)爲1.1倍,考慮到美國電氣行業中近一半的公司市銷比率都超過了1.8倍,甚至高於4倍的市銷率也不足爲奇。儘管如此,僅憑市銷率就輕信它並不明智,因爲可能有解釋說明爲什麼市銷率如此之低。
Flux Power Holdings的業績表現
儘管行業最近經歷了營業收入增長,但Flux Power Holdings的營業收入卻處於倒擋狀態,這不是很好。或許市銷率仍然很低,因爲投資者認爲強勁營業收入增長的前景並不會出現。如果您仍然喜歡這家公司,您會希望這不是這種情況,這樣當它不受歡迎時,您就有可能購買到一些股票。
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營收增長指標告訴我們什麼關於低市銷率?
只有當Flux Power Holdings的增長速度將落後於行業的時候,您才會真正感到市銷率如此之低。