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If You Had Bought OGE Energy (NYSE:OGE) Stock Five Years Ago, You Could Pocket A 28% Gain Today

The main point of investing for the long term is to make money. Better yet, you'd like to see the share price move up more than the market average. Unfortunately for shareholders, while the OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE:OGE) share price is up 28% in the last five years, that's less than the market return. Zooming in, the stock is up just 4.3% in the last year.

See our latest analysis for OGE Energy

While markets are a powerful pricing mechanism, share prices reflect investor sentiment, not just underlying business performance. 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.

Over half a decade, OGE Energy managed to grow its earnings per share at 2.7% a year. This EPS growth is slower than the share price growth of 5.1% per year, over the same period. So it's fair to assume the market has a higher opinion of the business than it did five years ago. And that's hardly shocking given the track record of growth.

The company's earnings per share (over time) is depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).

NYSE:OGE Past and Future Earnings, December 10th 2019
NYSE:OGE Past and Future Earnings, December 10th 2019

Dive deeper into OGE Energy's key metrics by checking this interactive graph of OGE Energy's earnings, revenue and cash flow.

What About Dividends?

As well as measuring the share price return, investors should also consider the total shareholder return (TSR). The TSR incorporates the value of any spin-offs or 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, OGE Energy's TSR for the last 5 years was 54%, which exceeds the share price return mentioned earlier. And there's no prize for guessing that the dividend payments largely explain the divergence!

A Different Perspective

OGE Energy shareholders are up 8.0% for the year (even including dividends) . But that was short of the market average. If we look back over five years, the returns are even better, coming in at 9.0% per year for five years. It's quite possible the business continues to execute with prowess, even as the share price gains are slowing. Before spending more time on OGE Energy it might be wise to click here to see if insiders have been buying or selling shares.

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.

If you spot an error that warrants correction, please contact the editor at editorial-team@simplywallst.com. This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. Simply Wall St has no position in the stocks mentioned.

We aim to bring you long-term focused research analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Thank you for reading.

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