Axos Financial (NYSE:AX) Shareholders Have Enjoyed A 64% Share Price Gain
It hasn't been the best quarter for Axos Financial, Inc. (NYSE:AX) shareholders, since the share price has fallen 11% in that time. But don't let that distract from the very nice return generated over three years. In the last three years the share price is up, 64%: better than the market.
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See our latest analysis for Axos Financial
To paraphrase Benjamin Graham: Over the short term the market is a voting machine, but over the long term it's a weighing machine. One flawed but reasonable way to assess how sentiment around a company has changed is to compare the earnings per share (EPS) with the share price.
Axos Financial was able to grow its EPS at 11% per year over three years, sending the share price higher. This EPS growth is lower than the 18% average annual increase in the share price. This indicates that the market is feeling more optimistic on the stock, after the last few years of progress. It's not unusual to see the market 're-rate' a stock, after a few years of growth.
The company's earnings per share (over time) is depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).
Dive deeper into Axos Financial's key metrics by checking this interactive graph of Axos Financial's earnings, revenue and cash flow.
A Different Perspective
Axos Financial shareholders are down 31% for the year, but the market itself is up 4.8%. Even the share prices of good stocks drop sometimes, but we want to see improvements in the fundamental metrics of a business, before getting too interested. Longer term investors wouldn't be so upset, since they would have made 8.0%, each year, over five years. It could be that the recent sell-off is an opportunity, so it may be worth checking the fundamental data for signs of a long term growth trend. Most investors take the time to check the data on insider transactions. You can click here to see if insiders have been buying or selling.
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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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