Yahoo Finance Alkaline Water (NASDAQ:WTER) shareholders have endured a 64% loss from investing in the stock three years ago
If you love investing in stocks you're bound to buy some losers. But the long term shareholders of The Alkaline Water Company Inc. (NASDAQ:WTER) have had an unfortunate run in the last three years. Unfortunately, they have held through a 64% decline in the share price in that time. More recently, the share price has dropped a further 19% in a month.
Now let's have a look at the company's fundamentals, and see if the long term shareholder return has matched the performance of the underlying business.
Check out our latest analysis for Alkaline Water
Alkaline Water wasn't profitable in the last twelve months, it is unlikely we'll see a strong correlation between its share price and its earnings per share (EPS). Arguably revenue is our next best option. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally expect to see good revenue growth. That's because fast revenue growth can be easily extrapolated to forecast profits, often of considerable size.
In the last three years, Alkaline Water saw its revenue grow by 21% per year, compound. That is faster than most pre-profit companies. In contrast, the share price is down 18% compound, over three years - disappointing by most standards. It seems likely that the market is worried about the continual losses. But a share price drop of that magnitude could well signal that the market is overly negative on the stock.
The graphic below depicts how earnings and revenue have changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).
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A Different Perspective
Alkaline Water shareholders are up 21% for the year. But that was short of the market average. The silver lining is that the gain was actually better than the average annual return of 4% per year over five year. This suggests the company might be improving over time. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Alkaline Water better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should learn about the 3 warning signs we've spotted with Alkaline Water (including 1 which is potentially serious) .
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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 US exchanges.
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