Vipshop Holdings: Overpriced Or A Value Chinese E-Commerce Company?
Over the past month, most of the Chinese internet stocks have been flying, and VIPS has performed similarly (better than some, not as well as some others like BITA). If there's a bubble, it's not just in VIPS, it's in the whole sector. For example, DANG, whose revenue is expected to grow by 25% this year and 21% next year (all figures are per Yahoo and are rounded) has a forward P/E of 31, vs. 43 for VIPS which is expected to grow MUCH faster (105% and 56%). (Yes, there are big differences in EV/revenue and cash per share as a percentage of stock price, for example, but DANG and the others are still very far from cheap.) Hard to bet against excellent management, which VIPS seems to have, in a country of over a billion people where mobile internet use is exploding.