money Easy Come, Easy Go: How Besunyen Holdings (HKG:926) Shareholders Got Unlucky And Saw 79% Of Their Cash Evaporate
Besunyen Holdings Company Limited (HKG:926) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 13% in the last month. But that is little comfort to those holding over the last half decade, sitting on a big loss. In fact, the share price has declined rather badly, down some 79% in that time. So is the recent increase sufficient to restore confidence in the stock? Not yet. We'd err towards caution given the long term under-performance.
See our latest analysis for Besunyen Holdings
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.
Besunyen Holdings became profitable within the last five years. Most would consider that to be a good thing, so it's counter-intuitive to see the share price declining. Other metrics may better explain the share price move.
The revenue fall of 2.1% per year for five years is neither good nor terrible. But if the market expected durable top line growth, then that could explain the share price weakness.
The image below shows how earnings and revenue have tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).
Take a more thorough look at Besunyen Holdings's financial health with this free report on its balance sheet.
What about the Total Shareholder Return (TSR)?
Investors should note that there's a difference between Besunyen Holdings's total shareholder return (TSR) and its share price change, which we've covered above. 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. Its history of dividend payouts mean that Besunyen Holdings's TSR, which was a 66% drop over the last 5 years, was not as bad as the share price return.
A Different Perspective
It's good to see that Besunyen Holdings has rewarded shareholders with a total shareholder return of 16% in the last twelve months. Notably the five-year annualised TSR loss of 20% per year compares very unfavourably with the recent share price performance. This makes us a little wary, but the business might have turned around its fortunes. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Besunyen Holdings better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should learn about the 2 warning signs we've spotted with Besunyen Holdings (including 1 which is makes us a bit uncomfortable) .
But note: Besunyen Holdings may not be the best stock to buy. So take a peek at this free list of interesting companies with past earnings growth (and further growth forecast).
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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