Day 2 of how to value a stock
Yesterday, we talked about PE ratio and how you can't depend on it alone to value a stock.
Today I want to introduce you to another metric. The Price/Earnings-to-Growth ratio.
PEG Ratio = PE Ratio ÷ Earnings Growth Rate
It helps you answer one important question:
“Am I paying a fair price for this company’s growth?”
Example:
A company has:
• PE ratio of 20
• Expected earnings growth of 25%
PEG = 20 ÷ 25 = 0.8
How to interpret it:
• PEG below 1 → potentially undervalued relative to growth
• PEG around 1 → fairly valued
• PEG above 1 → possibly expensive
Let's bring it into context with a real life example of two stocks in the same industry
Wapco vs Buacement
Ever wondered how to know if a stock is overvalued or undervalued?
This is important because that's one of the ways you can identify companies that can 2x to 5x. Some people identified and snatched up TIP when it was still in the single digits, and some people identified and bought Aradel when it was still N400.
Let's talk today about one of the most common valuation tools: The PE Ratio.
PE Ratio (Price-to-Earnings) = how much you’re paying for ₦1 of a company’s profit.
If a stock has a PE of 10, it means investors are willing to pay ₦10 for every ₦1 the company earns annually.
How to use it:
• Valuation check: Compare PE to similar companies (that is companies in the same industry. For instance, Aradel vs Seplat, Dangote Cement vs Buacement vs Wapco). If peers trade at 15x and your stock is at 8x, it might be undervalued (or the market knows something you don't. There may be some macroeconomic risks facing the company or the market doesn't believe the company will do well in the long run).
• Growth matters: A high PE isn’t always bad. Fast-growing companies deserve higher PEs. A slow/no-growth company with a high PE? That’s a red flag.
• Market context: If the average market PE is around 10x and you’re buying a company at 20x, you’re betting on strong future growth.
• Simple rule of thumb: Low PE = potentially cheap. High PE = potentially expensive
But ALWAYS ask: why?
PE doesn’t give answers. It helps you ask better questions.
In summary, you can't use PE alone to value a company. If you decide to buy only stocks with low PE, you may pile up a basket of crap cos maybe, just maybe, the PE is low for a reason.
In the coming days, I will be talking about other metrics that can help you value a company so you get a real picture of whether a company is really undervalued by the market relative to its earnings potential or not.
What other metrics do YOU use to value a company?
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Revenue more than doubled to ₦6.95 billion, gross profit more than doubled, and profit before tax more than doubled to almost ₦3 billion.
This is a quiet Nigerian waste management and industrial cleaning company serving the oil and gas sector, and it is scaling fast. In Q2 alone sales rose thirty-one percent, gross profit jumped ninety percent, and profit after tax climbed fifty-four percent.
Net assets jumped over 400% to ₦17.3 billion while working capital rose more than 500%.
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Some companies pay some profit during half year as interim and the rest as a final dividend after the years report is concluded.
Some even do quarterly payments like SEPLAT and NIDF
While some others just wait till end of the year and pay everything at once as a final dividend
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They only pay dividends when they make sufficient profit and if regulations (eg in the banking sector) allow them to
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