Shanghai Xinhua Media Co., Ltd. (SHSE:600825) shareholders have had their patience rewarded with a 25% share price jump in the last month. The last 30 days bring the annual gain to a very sharp 60%.
Following the firm bounce in price, you could be forgiven for thinking Shanghai Xinhua Media is a stock to steer clear of with a price-to-sales ratios (or “P/S”) of 5.9x, considering almost half the companies in China’s Media industry have P/S ratios below 3.6x. 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 Shanghai Xinhua Media’s P/S Mean For Shareholders?
The recent revenue growth at Shanghai Xinhua Media would have to be considered satisfactory if not spectacular. One possibility is that the P/S ratio is high because investors…
