Yahoo Finance If You Had Bought Capital & Counties Properties (LON:CAPC) Stock Five Years Ago, You'd Be Sitting On A 31% Loss, Today
In order to justify the effort of selecting individual stocks, it's worth striving to beat the returns from a market index fund. But the main game is to find enough winners to more than offset the losers At this point some shareholders may be questioning their investment in Capital & Counties Properties PLC (LON:CAPC), since the last five years saw the share price fall 31%. There was little comfort for shareholders in the last week as the price declined a further 2.3%.
Check out our latest analysis for Capital & Counties Properties
Because Capital & Counties Properties made a loss in the last twelve months, we think the market is probably more focussed on revenue and revenue growth, at least for now. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally expect to see good revenue growth. That's because it's hard to be confident a company will be sustainable if revenue growth is negligible, and it never makes a profit.
Over half a decade Capital & Counties Properties reduced its trailing twelve month revenue by 8.3% for each year. While far from catastrophic that is not good. The stock hasn't done well for shareholders in the last five years, falling 7.2%, annualized. Unfortunately, though, it makes sense given the lack of either profits or revenue growth. Without profits, its hard to see how shareholders win if the revenue keeps falling.
The image below shows how earnings and revenue have tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).
It's probably worth noting that the CEO is paid less than the median at similar sized companies. It's always worth keeping an eye on CEO pay, but a more important question is whether the company will grow earnings throughout the years. If you are thinking of buying or selling Capital & Counties Properties stock, you should check out this free report showing analyst profit forecasts.
A Different Perspective
Capital & Counties Properties shareholders are up 7.6% for the year (even including dividends) . Unfortunately this falls short of the market return. On the bright side, that's still a gain, and it is certainly better than the yearly loss of about 6.8% endured over half a decade. So this might be a sign the business has turned its fortunes around. Shareholders might want to examine this detailed historical graph of past earnings, revenue and cash flow.
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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 GB exchanges.
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