Yahoo Finance Easy Come, Easy Go: How MMA Offshore (ASX:MRM) Shareholders Got Unlucky And Saw 82% Of Their Cash Evaporate
We're definitely into long term investing, but some companies are simply bad investments over any time frame. We really hate to see fellow investors lose their hard-earned money. Spare a thought for those who held MMA Offshore Limited (ASX:MRM) for five whole years - as the share price tanked 82%. Furthermore, it's down 11% in about a quarter. That's not much fun for holders.
We really hope anyone holding through that price crash has a diversified portfolio. Even when you lose money, you don't have to lose the lesson.
View our latest analysis for MMA Offshore
Given that MMA Offshore didn't make a profit in the last twelve months, we'll focus on revenue growth to form a quick view of its business development. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally expect to see good revenue growth. That's because it's hard to be confident a company will be sustainable if revenue growth is negligible, and it never makes a profit.
Over half a decade MMA Offshore reduced its trailing twelve month revenue by 30% for each year. That puts it in an unattractive cohort, to put it mildly. So it's not that strange that the share price dropped 29% per year in that period. We don't think this is a particularly promising picture. Of course, the poor performance could mean the market has been too severe selling down. That can happen.
The company's revenue and earnings (over time) are depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).
You can see how its balance sheet has strengthened (or weakened) over time in this free interactive graphic.
What about the Total Shareholder Return (TSR)?
We've already covered MMA Offshore's share price action, but we should also mention its total shareholder return (TSR). The TSR attempts to capture the value of dividends (as if they were reinvested) as well as any spin-offs or discounted capital raisings offered to shareholders. Its history of dividend payouts mean that MMA Offshore's TSR, which was a 79% drop over the last 5 years, was not as bad as the share price return.
A Different Perspective
While the broader market gained around 20% in the last year, MMA Offshore shareholders lost 5.9%. 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. However, the loss over the last year isn't as bad as the 27% per annum loss investors have suffered over the last half decade. We'd need to see some sustained improvements in the key metrics before we could muster much enthusiasm. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand MMA Offshore better, we need to consider many other factors. Be aware that MMA Offshore is showing 3 warning signs in our investment analysis , you should know about...
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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 AU exchanges.
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