Should Gold Resource Be Disappointed With Their 89% Profit?
It might be of some concern to shareholders to see the Gold Resource Corporation (NYSEMKT:GORO) share price down 11% in the last month. But over three years, the returns would have left most investors smiling After all, the share price is up a market-beating 89% in that time.
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To quote Buffett, ‘Ships will sail around the world but the Flat Earth Society will flourish. There will continue to be wide discrepancies between price and value in the marketplace…’ One way to examine how market sentiment has changed over time is to look at the interaction between a company’s share price and its earnings per share (EPS).
During three years of share price growth, Gold Resource achieved compound earnings per share growth of 42% per year. The average annual share price increase of 24% is actually lower than the EPS growth. So it seems investors have become more cautious about the company, over time.
The image below shows how EPS has tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).
This free interactive report on Gold Resource’s earnings, revenue and cash flow is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.
What About Dividends?
It is important to consider the total shareholder return, as well as the share price return, for any given stock. The TSR incorporates the value of any discounted capital raisings, along with any dividends, based on the assumption that the dividends are reinvested. It’s fair to say that the TSR gives a more complete picture for stocks that pay a dividend. As it happens, Gold Resource’s TSR for the last 3 years was 92%, which exceeds the share price return mentioned earlier. The dividends paid by the company have thusly boosted the total shareholder return.
A Different Perspective
Gold Resource shareholders gained a total return of 1.4% during the year. But that return falls short of the market. But at least that’s still a gain! Over five years the TSR has been a reduction of 5.0% per year, over five years. So this might be a sign the business has turned its fortunes around. If you would like to research Gold Resource in more detail then you might want to take a look at whether insiders have been buying or selling shares in the company.
If you like to buy stocks alongside management, then you might just love this free list of companies. (Hint: insiders have been buying them).
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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