Investors Who Bought Shanshan Brand Management (HKG:1749) Shares A Year Ago Are Now Down 31%
Investors can approximate the average market return by buying an index fund. But if you buy individual stocks, you can do both better or worse than that. For example, the Shanshan Brand Management Co., Ltd. (HKG:1749) share price is down 31% in the last year. That contrasts poorly with the market return of 3.5%. Shanshan Brand Management may have better days ahead, of course; we've only looked at a one year period. In contrast, the stock price has popped 8.8% in the last thirty days.
See our latest analysis for Shanshan Brand Management
In his essay The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville Warren Buffett described how share prices do not always rationally reflect the value of a business. 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).
Unfortunately Shanshan Brand Management reported an EPS drop of 35% for the last year. This proportional reduction in earnings per share isn't far from the 31% decrease in the share price. Given the lower EPS we might have expected investors to lose confidence in the stock, but that doesn't seemed to have happened. Rather, the share price is remains a similar multiple of the EPS, suggesting the outlook remains the same.
The company's earnings per share (over time) is depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).
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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 is a return calculation that accounts for the value of cash dividends (assuming that any dividend received was reinvested) and the calculated value of any discounted capital raisings and spin-offs. It's fair to say that the TSR gives a more complete picture for stocks that pay a dividend. As it happens, Shanshan Brand Management's TSR for the last year was -27%, which exceeds the share price return mentioned earlier. The dividends paid by the company have thusly boosted the total shareholder return.
A Different Perspective
While Shanshan Brand Management shareholders are down 27% for the year (even including dividends) , the market itself is up 3.5%. While the aim is to do better than that, it's worth recalling that even great long-term investments sometimes underperform for a year or more. With the stock down 3.9% over the last three months, the market doesn't seem to believe that the company has solved all its problems. Basically, most investors should be wary of buying into a poor-performing stock, unless the business itself has clearly improved. Keeping this in mind, a solid next step might be to take a look at Shanshan Brand Management's dividend track record. This free interactive graph is a great place to start.
Of course Shanshan Brand Management may not be the best stock to buy. So you may wish to see this free collection of growth stocks.
Please note, the market returns quoted in this article reflect the market weighted average returns of stocks that currently trade on HK exchanges.
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