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華爾街日報Further Upside For DIT Corp. (KOSDAQ:110990) Shares Could Introduce Price Risks After 26% Bounce
DIT Corp. (KOSDAQ:110990) shareholders would be excited to see that the share price has had a great month, posting a 26% gain and recovering from prior weakness. Looking back a bit further, it's encouraging to see the stock is up 34% in the last year.
Although its price has surged higher, given about half the companies in Korea have price-to-earnings ratios (or "P/E's") above 14x, you may still consider DIT as an attractive investment with its 9.4x P/E ratio. Nonetheless, we'd need to dig a little deeper to determine if there is a rational basis for the reduced P/E.
Recent times have been quite advantageous for DIT as its earnings have been rising very briskly. One possibility is that the P/E is low because investors think this strong earnings growth might actually underperform the broader market in the near future. If you 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 Growth Metrics Telling Us About The Low P/E?
In order to justify its P/E ratio, DIT would need to produce sluggish growth that's trailing the market.
Retrospectively, the last year delivered an exceptional 58% gain to the company's bottom line. Pleasingly, EPS has also lifted 373% in aggregate from three years ago, thanks to the last 12 months of growth. Therefore, it's fair to say the earnings growth recently has been superb for the company.
This is in contrast to the rest of the market, which is expected to grow by 36% over the next year, materially lower than the company's recent medium-term annualised growth rates.
With this information, we find it odd that DIT is trading at a P/E lower than the market. Apparently some shareholders believe the recent performance has exceeded its limits and have been accepting significantly lower selling prices.
The Key Takeaway
DIT's stock might have been given a solid boost, but its P/E certainly hasn't reached any great heights. Generally, our preference is to limit the use of the price-to-earnings ratio to establishing what the market thinks about the overall health of a company.
Our examination of DIT revealed its three-year earnings trends aren't contributing to its P/E anywhere near as much as we would have predicted, given they look better than current market expectations. When we see strong earnings with faster-than-market growth, we assume potential risks are what might be placing significant pressure on the P/E ratio. It appears many are indeed anticipating earnings instability, because the persistence of these recent medium-term conditions would normally provide a boost to the share price.
You should always think about risks. Case in point, we've spotted 2 warning signs for DIT you should be aware of.
If these risks are making you reconsider your opinion on DIT, explore our interactive list of high quality stocks to get an idea of what else is out there.
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