Yahoo Finance If You Had Bought DBV Technologies (EPA:DBV) Stock Three Years Ago, You'd Be Sitting On A 71% Loss, Today
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DBV Technologies S.A. (EPA:DBV) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 18% in the last month. But that is meagre solace in the face of the shocking decline over three years. Indeed, the share price is down a whopping 71% in the last three years. So we're relieved for long term holders to see a bit of uplift. Only time will tell if the company can sustain the turnaround.
Check out our latest analysis for DBV Technologies
DBV Technologies isn't currently profitable, so most analysts would look to revenue growth to get an idea of how fast the underlying business is growing. Generally speaking, companies without profits are expected to grow revenue every year, and at a good clip. Some companies are willing to postpone profitability to grow revenue faster, but in that case one does expect good top-line growth.
In the last three years, DBV Technologies saw its revenue grow by 16% per year, compound. That's a fairly respectable growth rate. So it's hard to believe the share price decline of 34% per year is due to the revenue. It could be that the losses were much larger than expected. This is exactly why investors need to diversify - even when a loss making company grows revenue, it can fail to deliver for shareholders.
You can see below how earnings and revenue have changed over time (discover the exact values by clicking on the image).
DBV Technologies is well known by investors, and plenty of clever analysts have tried to predict the future profit levels. Given we have quite a good number of analyst forecasts, it might be well worth checking out this free chart depicting consensus estimates.
A Different Perspective
DBV Technologies shareholders are down 41% for the year, but the market itself is up 5.9%. Even the share prices of good stocks drop sometimes, but we want to see improvements in the fundamental metrics of a business, before getting too interested. Unfortunately, last year's performance may indicate unresolved challenges, given that it was worse than the annualised loss of 2.3% over the last half decade. Generally speaking long term share price weakness can be a bad sign, though contrarian investors might want to research the stock in hope of a turnaround. You could get a better understanding of DBV Technologies's growth by checking out this more detailed historical graph of earnings, revenue and cash flow.
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