Ping An Insurance (601318.SS)
Financials · Shanghai · China
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Ping An Insurance trades at CN¥51.00, which is 21% below the CN¥61.63 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 50 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 6.8 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About Ping An Insurance
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. provides financial products and services in the People's Republic of China. It operates through Life and Health Insurance; Property and Casualty Insurance; Banking; Asset Management; and Finance Enablement segments. The company offers life insurance products, including term, whole-life, endowment, annuity, investment-linked, universal life, and health care and medical insurance; property and casualty insurance, such as auto insurance, non-auto insurance, accident, and health insurance. It also undertakes loan and intermediary business with corporate customers and retail customers. In addition, the company provides wealth management and credit card services to individual customers; trust services, brokerage services, trading services, investment banking services, investment management services, finance lease business, and other asset management services; and financial and daily-life services through internet platforms comprising financial transaction information service platform, and health care service platform. Further, it is involved in the real estate investment and management; expressway operation; production and sale of consumer chemicals; logistics and real estate activities; consulting services; warehousing; IT services; infant products; and hospital management. Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. was incorporated in 1988 and is based in Shenzhen, China.
601318.SS passes 6 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is Ping An Insurance (601318.SS) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of CN¥61.63, 601318.SS at CN¥51.00 is 21% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is 601318.SS's P/E ratio?
601318.SS trades at 6.8 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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