Yahoo Finance If You Had Bought PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) Shares A Year Ago You'd Have Earned 103% Returns
Unfortunately, investing is risky - companies can and do go bankrupt. But if you pick the right business to buy shares in, you can make more than you can lose. Take, for example PPG Industries, Inc. (NYSE:PPG). Its share price is already up an impressive 103% in the last twelve months. Also pleasing for shareholders was the 28% gain in the last three months. The company reported its financial results recently; you can catch up on the latest numbers by reading our company report. Looking back further, the stock price is 68% higher than it was three years ago.
Check out our latest analysis for PPG Industries
While the efficient markets hypothesis continues to be taught by some, it has been proven that markets are over-reactive dynamic systems, and investors are not always rational. 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 PPG Industries grew its earnings per share (EPS) by 1.4%. This EPS growth is significantly lower than the 103% increase in the share price. This indicates that the market is now more optimistic about the stock.
You can see how EPS has changed over time in the image below (click on the chart to see the exact values).
Before buying or selling a stock, we always recommend a close examination of historic growth trends, available here.
What About Dividends?
It is important to consider the total shareholder return, as well as the share price return, for any given stock. 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. It's fair to say that the TSR gives a more complete picture for stocks that pay a dividend. In the case of PPG Industries, it has a TSR of 106% for the last year. That exceeds its share price return that we previously mentioned. This is largely a result of its dividend payments!
A Different Perspective
It's good to see that PPG Industries has rewarded shareholders with a total shareholder return of 106% in the last twelve months. That's including the dividend. That gain is better than the annual TSR over five years, which is 12%. Therefore it seems like sentiment around the company has been positive lately. In the best case scenario, this may hint at some real business momentum, implying that now could be a great time to delve deeper. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand PPG Industries better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should be aware of the 1 warning sign we've spotted with PPG Industries .
We will like PPG 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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