Yahoo Finance Can You Imagine How Restaurant Brands International's (NYSE:QSR) Shareholders Feel About The 36% Share Price Increase?
If you buy and hold a stock for many years, you'd hope to be making a profit. Better yet, you'd like to see the share price move up more than the market average. Unfortunately for shareholders, while the Restaurant Brands International Inc. (NYSE:QSR) share price is up 36% in the last five years, that's less than the market return. Zooming in, the stock is actually down 25% in the last year.
Check out our latest analysis for Restaurant Brands International
There is no denying that markets are sometimes efficient, but prices do not always reflect underlying business performance. By comparing earnings per share (EPS) and share price changes over time, we can get a feel for how investor attitudes to a company have morphed over time.
During the five years of share price growth, Restaurant Brands International moved from a loss to profitability. That's generally thought to be a genuine positive, so we would expect to see an increasing share price. Given that the company made a profit three years ago, but not five years ago, it is worth looking at the share price returns over the last three years, too. In fact, the Restaurant Brands International stock price is 3.3% lower in the last three years. In the same period, EPS is up 16% per year. It would appear there's a real mismatch between the increasing EPS and the share price, which has declined -1.1% a year for three years.
You can see below how EPS has changed over time (discover the exact values by clicking on the image).
This free interactive report on Restaurant Brands International's earnings, revenue and cash flow is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.
What About Dividends?
It is important to consider the total shareholder return, as well as the share price return, for any given stock. Whereas the share price return only reflects the change in the share price, the TSR includes the value of dividends (assuming they were reinvested) and the benefit of any discounted capital raising or spin-off. So for companies that pay a generous dividend, the TSR is often a lot higher than the share price return. As it happens, Restaurant Brands International's TSR for the last 5 years was 52%, which exceeds the share price return mentioned earlier. The dividends paid by the company have thusly boosted the total shareholder return.
A Different Perspective
Investors in Restaurant Brands International had a tough year, with a total loss of 22% (including dividends), against a market gain of about 18%. However, keep in mind that even the best stocks will sometimes underperform the market over a twelve month period. On the bright side, long term shareholders have made money, with a gain of 8.8% per year over half a decade. If the fundamental data continues to indicate long term sustainable growth, the current sell-off could be an opportunity worth considering. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Restaurant Brands International better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should learn about the 2 warning signs we've spotted with Restaurant Brands International (including 1 which is makes us a bit uncomfortable) .
We will like Restaurant Brands International 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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