Yahoo Finance Altice USA (NYSE:ATUS) Shareholders Have Enjoyed A 56% Share Price Gain
These days it's easy to simply buy an index fund, and your returns should (roughly) match the market. But investors can boost returns by picking market-beating companies to own shares in. To wit, the Altice USA, Inc. (NYSE:ATUS) share price is 56% higher than it was a year ago, much better than the market return of around 4.2% (not including dividends) in the same period. If it can keep that out-performance up over the long term, investors will do very well! Altice USA hasn't been listed for long, so it's still not clear if it is a long term winner.
Check out our latest analysis for Altice USA
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, Altice USA actually saw its earnings per share drop 91%. Given the share price gain, we doubt the market is measuring progress with EPS. Therefore, it seems likely that investors are putting more weight on metrics other than EPS, at the moment.
We think that the revenue growth of 3.2% could have some investors interested. Many businesses do go through a faze where they have to forgo some profits to drive business development, and sometimes its for the best.
You can see below how earnings and revenue have changed over time (discover the exact values by clicking on the image).
Altice USA is well known by investors, and plenty of clever analysts have tried to predict the future profit levels. You can see what analysts are predicting for Altice USA in this interactive graph of future profit estimates.
A Different Perspective
Altice USA shareholders should be happy with the total gain of 56% over the last twelve months. A substantial portion of that gain has come in the last three months, with the stock up 12% in that time. This suggests the company is continuing to win over new investors. Before spending more time on Altice USA it might be wise to click here to see if insiders have been buying or selling shares.
If you like to buy stocks alongside management, then you might just love this free list of companies. (Hint: insiders have been buying them).
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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