Yahoo Finance Should 58.com (NYSE:WUBA) Be Disappointed With Their 37% Profit?
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 58.com Inc. (NYSE:WUBA) share price is up 37% in the last five years, that's less than the market return. Unfortunately the share price is down 25% in the last year.
See our latest analysis for 58.com
To quote Buffett, 'Ships will sail around the world but the Flat Earth Society will flourish. There will continue to be wide discrepancies between price and value in the marketplace...' 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 half decade, 58.com became profitable. That's generally thought to be a genuine positive, so we would expect to see an increasing share price.
You can see how EPS has changed over time in the image below (click on the chart to see the exact values).
It is of course excellent to see how 58.com has grown profits over the years, but the future is more important for shareholders. If you are thinking of buying or selling 58.com stock, you should check out this FREE detailed report on its balance sheet.
A Different Perspective
While the broader market gained around 3.8% in the last year, 58.com shareholders lost 25%. 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. Longer term investors wouldn't be so upset, since they would have made 6.6%, each year, over five years. If the fundamental data continues to indicate long term sustainable growth, the current sell-off could be an opportunity worth considering. Before deciding if you like the current share price, check how 58.com scores on these 3 valuation metrics.
If you would prefer to check out another company -- one with potentially superior financials -- then do not miss this free list of companies that have proven they can grow earnings.
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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