Those who invested in PrimeEnergy Resources (NASDAQ:PNRG) three years ago are up 80%
By buying an index fund, investors can approximate the average market return. But if you buy good businesses at attractive prices, your portfolio returns could exceed the average market return. For example, the PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation (NASDAQ:PNRG) share price is up 80% in the last three years, clearly besting the market return of around 19% (not including dividends). However, more recent returns haven't been as impressive as that, with the stock returning just 19% in the last year.
Now it's worth having a look at the company's fundamentals too, because that will help us determine if the long term shareholder return has matched the performance of the underlying business.
See our latest analysis for PrimeEnergy Resources
While markets are a powerful pricing mechanism, share prices reflect investor sentiment, not just underlying business performance. 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).
PrimeEnergy Resources became profitable within the last three years. That would generally be considered a positive, so we'd expect the share price to be up.
The company's earnings per share (over time) is depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).
Dive deeper into PrimeEnergy Resources' key metrics by checking this interactive graph of PrimeEnergy Resources's earnings, revenue and cash flow.
A Different Perspective
PrimeEnergy Resources provided a TSR of 19% over the last twelve months. 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 6% per year, over five years. So this might be a sign the business has turned its fortunes around. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand PrimeEnergy Resources better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should learn about the 2 warning signs we've spotted with PrimeEnergy Resources (including 1 which shouldn't be ignored) .
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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 American exchanges.
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