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Understanding Valuation – Price/Earning Ratio

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As an investor, you probably use the P/E ratio of a stock to make your investment decisions. Perhaps you believe the P/E ratio of a stock to be one of the most important factors. The key question is – which P/E ratio do you consider? Before you answer this question, let’s do a quick recap of what a P/E ratio is. This ratio, which is computed by dividing the current market price of the stock by its earnings per share (EPS), shows how much investors are willing to pay for each rupee earned by the company. The tricky part is the EPS that you need to consider. You may believe that you should naturally consider the EPS of the last 4 quarters declared by the company. That is where most investors go wrong. By using the last 4 quarters’ EPS, you are computing the ‘trailing’ P/E ratio. Remember, the past is the past… what is important is the future – while this applies in life, it applies in equity investing too.

P/E Ratio = Price / Earnings per Share (EPS)

EPS = Net Profit / Number of outstanding shares

The trailing P/E is misleading – a practical example

Let’s consider the example of Eicher Motors, a company that not only revived, but achieved phenomenal growth as a result of a strong management led by Siddhartha Lal. When Siddhartha took control of Eicher in 2000 at the young age of 26, the company was about to shut down. He turned the loss-making Eicher into India’s most profitable bike maker, selling over 650,000 bikes a year from just 30,000 a decade ago, and the rest is history. From a meagre $20 million market capitalisation in 2001, Eicher Motors become a $13 billion company (as on March 2017). Over the last 7 years, the company’s EBITDA margins have expanded from about 10% to more than 31% currently, making it one of the most profitable automobile companies in the country.

Eicher Motors – Forward P/E Computation

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*March 16 EPS has been annualized since the declared EPS was for 15 months

^ Considering the forward P/E (which sharply fell from the range of 23 to a little more than 1), one can see that Eicher was available at an extremely attractive price

If an investor had bought shares of Eicher in the year 2010 when the company was quoting at a trailing P/E of about 23, he would have actually purchased the stock at a very low price considering its forward P/E (which was about 14 considering the EPS of December 2011 and trailing down to a little more than 1 considering the EPS of March 2017). Considering the current price of the stock (Rs. 31,439 as on 26 October, 2017), the investor would have been rewarded with a 48-bagger stock!

As a recap, to assess whether a stock is available at a ‘reasonable’ price, it’s important to consider the forward P/E multiple. This is based on the expected EPS of the stock, going forward. The expected EPS is, in turn, based on the company’s management, business outlook, the business cycle it is currently in, the current state of the economy, global trends, etc.[/vc_column_text][vc_zigzag][vc_column_text]

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