Announcing: Navistar International (NYSE:NAV) Stock Soared An Exciting 404% In The Last Five Years
Buying shares in the best businesses can build meaningful wealth for you and your family. And highest quality companies can see their share prices grow by huge amounts. To wit, the Navistar International Corporation (NYSE:NAV) share price has soared 404% over five years. If that doesn't get you thinking about long term investing, we don't know what will.
View our latest analysis for Navistar International
Navistar International wasn't profitable in the last twelve months, it is unlikely we'll see a strong correlation between its share price and its earnings per share (EPS). Arguably revenue is our next best option. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally expect to see good revenue growth. As you can imagine, fast revenue growth, when maintained, often leads to fast profit growth.
In the last 5 years Navistar International saw its revenue grow at 2.5% per year. Put simply, that growth rate fails to impress. So shareholders should be pretty elated with the 38% increase per year, in that time. We'll tip our hats to that, any day, but the top-line growth isn't particularly impressive when you compare it to other pre-profit companies. Having said that, a closer look at the numbers might surface good reasons to believe that profits will gush in the future.
You can see below how earnings and revenue have changed over time (discover the exact values by clicking on the image).
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A Different Perspective
We're pleased to report that Navistar International shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 52% over one year. That gain is better than the annual TSR over five years, which is 38%. Therefore it seems like sentiment around the company has been positive lately. Given the share price momentum remains strong, it might be worth taking a closer look at the stock, lest you miss an opportunity. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Navistar International better, we need to consider many other factors. Case in point: We've spotted 1 warning sign for Navistar International you should be aware of.
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Please note, the market returns quoted in this article reflect the market weighted average returns of stocks that currently trade on US exchanges.
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