Yahoo Finance Workiva (NYSE:WK) shareholders are still up 842% over 5 years despite pulling back 6.5% in the past week
Buying shares in the best businesses can build meaningful wealth for you and your family. While the best companies are hard to find, but they can generate massive returns over long periods. For example, the Workiva Inc. (NYSE:WK) share price is up a whopping 842% in the last half decade, a handsome return for long term holders. This just goes to show the value creation that some businesses can achieve. In the last week shares have slid back 6.5%. It really delights us to see such great share price performance for investors.
In light of the stock dropping 6.5% in the past week, we want to investigate the longer term story, and see if fundamentals have been the driver of the company's positive five-year return.
Check out our latest analysis for Workiva
Workiva 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. As you can imagine, fast revenue growth, when maintained, often leads to fast profit growth.
For the last half decade, Workiva can boast revenue growth at a rate of 17% per year. Even measured against other revenue-focussed companies, that's a good result. Fortunately, the market has not missed this, and has pushed the share price up by 57% per year in that time. It's never too late to start following a top notch stock like Workiva, since some long term winners go on winning for decades. So we'd recommend you take a closer look at this one, but keep in mind the market seems optimistic.
The company's revenue and earnings (over time) are depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).
We're pleased to report that the CEO is remunerated more modestly than most CEOs at similarly capitalized 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. So it makes a lot of sense to check out what analysts think Workiva will earn in the future (free profit forecasts).
A Different Perspective
It's good to see that Workiva has rewarded shareholders with a total shareholder return of 41% in the last twelve months. However, that falls short of the 57% TSR per annum it has made for shareholders, each year, over five years. While it is well worth considering the different impacts that market conditions can have on the share price, there are other factors that are even more important. For example, we've discovered 5 warning signs for Workiva (1 can't be ignored!) that you should be aware of before investing here.
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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 US exchanges.
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