Yahoo Finance Did You Miss NACCO Industries's (NYSE:NC) 39% Share Price Gain?
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These days it's easy to simply buy an index fund, and your returns should (roughly) match the market. But investors can boost returns by picking market-beating companies to own shares in. For example, the NACCO Industries, Inc. (NYSE:NC) share price is up 39% in the last year, clearly besting than the market return of around 4.0% (not including dividends). If it can keep that out-performance up over the long term, investors will do very well! In contrast, the longer term returns are negative, since the share price is 4.6% lower than it was three years ago.
See our latest analysis for NACCO Industries
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.
During the last year NACCO Industries grew its earnings per share (EPS) by 45%. We note that the earnings per share growth isn't far from the share price growth (of 39%). So this implies that investor expectations of the company have remained pretty steady. It looks like the share price is responding to the EPS.
The company's earnings per share (over time) is depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).
It might be well worthwhile taking a look at our free report on NACCO Industries's earnings, revenue and cash flow.
What About Dividends?
When looking at investment returns, it is important to consider the difference between total shareholder return (TSR) and share price return. 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. Arguably, the TSR gives a more comprehensive picture of the return generated by a stock. We note that for NACCO Industries the TSR over the last year was 41%, which is better than the share price return mentioned above. This is largely a result of its dividend payments!
A Different Perspective
It's nice to see that NACCO Industries shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 41% over the last year. That's including the dividend. That's better than the annualised return of 10% over half a decade, implying that the company is doing better recently. Someone with an optimistic perspective could view the recent improvement in TSR as indicating that the business itself is getting better with time. Before spending more time on NACCO Industries it might be wise to click here to see if insiders have been buying or selling shares.
We will like NACCO Industries better if we see some big insider buys. While we wait, check out this free list of growing companies with considerable, recent, insider buying.
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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