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.
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Flux Power Holdings, Inc. (纳斯达克FLUX) 的股东们毫无疑问会很高兴看到股价在过去一个月内反弹了27%,尽管它仍在努力弥补最近失去的地盘。不幸的是,上个月的收益对去年的损失没有起到多少作用,股票的跌幅仍旧为24%。
尽管Flux Power Holdings的股价上涨,但它目前可能仍在发出买入信号,因为它的市销率(或“P/S”比率)为1.1倍,考虑到美国电气行业中近一半的公司市销比率都超过了1.8倍,甚至高于4倍的市销率也不足为奇。尽管如此,仅凭市销率就轻信它并不明智,因为可能有解释说明为什么市销率如此之低。
Flux Power Holdings的业绩表现
尽管行业营业收入有所增长,但Flux Power Holdings的营业收入却倒退了,这并不理想。也许股东认为强劲的营收增长前景并不在远方,因此市销率仍然较低。如果您仍然喜欢该公司,您希望这不是真的,这样您就可以在它不受青睐的时候可能买入一些股票。
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营收增长指标告诉我们关于低市销率的什么?
唯一一种你会真正舒适地看到像Flux Power Holdings这样低市销率的情况是当公司的增长正好能够落后于行业。