There's Reason For Concern Over OKG Technology Holdings Limited's (HKG:1499) Massive 31% Price Jump

Simply Wall St · 10/14 22:29

OKG Technology Holdings Limited (HKG:1499) shareholders would be excited to see that the share price has had a great month, posting a 31% gain and recovering from prior weakness. Unfortunately, the gains of the last month did little to right the losses of the last year with the stock still down 29% over that time.

After such a large jump in price, you could be forgiven for thinking OKG Technology Holdings is a stock to steer clear of with a price-to-sales ratios (or "P/S") of 2.6x, considering almost half the companies in Hong Kong's Construction industry have P/S ratios below 0.3x. Nonetheless, we'd need to dig a little deeper to determine if there is a rational basis for the highly elevated P/S.

See our latest analysis for OKG Technology Holdings

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SEHK:1499 Price to Sales Ratio vs Industry October 14th 2024

How Has OKG Technology Holdings Performed Recently?

For example, consider that OKG Technology Holdings' financial performance has been poor lately as its revenue has been in decline. Perhaps the market believes the company can do enough to outperform the rest of the industry in the near future, which is keeping the P/S ratio high. You'd really hope so, otherwise you're paying a pretty hefty price for no particular reason.

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How Is OKG Technology Holdings' Revenue Growth Trending?

In order to justify its P/S ratio, OKG Technology Holdings would need to produce outstanding growth that's well in excess of the industry.

Retrospectively, the last year delivered a frustrating 2.2% decrease to the company's top line. As a result, revenue from three years ago have also fallen 26% overall. So unfortunately, we have to acknowledge that the company has not done a great job of growing revenue over that time.

Weighing that medium-term revenue trajectory against the broader industry's one-year forecast for expansion of 10% shows it's an unpleasant look.

With this in mind, we find it worrying that OKG Technology Holdings' P/S exceeds that of its industry peers. It seems most investors are ignoring the recent poor growth rate and are hoping for a turnaround in the company's business prospects. Only the boldest would assume these prices are sustainable as a continuation of recent revenue trends is likely to weigh heavily on the share price eventually.

The Key Takeaway

The strong share price surge has lead to OKG Technology Holdings' P/S soaring as well. 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.

We've established that OKG Technology Holdings currently trades on a much higher than expected P/S since its recent revenues have been in decline over the medium-term. With a revenue decline on investors' minds, the likelihood of a souring sentiment is quite high which could send the P/S back in line with what we'd expect. Unless the the circumstances surrounding the recent medium-term improve, it wouldn't be wrong to expect a a difficult period ahead for the company's shareholders.

We don't want to rain on the parade too much, but we did also find 1 warning sign for OKG Technology Holdings that you need to be mindful of.

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