Yahoo Finance Investors Who Bought Apollo Tourism & Leisure (ASX:ATL) Shares A Year Ago Are Now Down 66%
Apollo Tourism & Leisure Ltd (ASX:ATL) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 17% in the last month. But that's small comfort given the dismal price performance over the last year. Specifically, the stock price slipped by 66% in that time. It's not that amazing to see a bounce after a drop like that. Arguably, the fall was overdone.
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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.
Unfortunately Apollo Tourism & Leisure reported an EPS drop of 76% for the last year. This proportional reduction in earnings per share isn't far from the 66% decrease in the share price. Therefore one could posit that the market has not become more concerned about the company, despite the lower EPS. Rather, the share price has approximately tracked EPS growth.
The graphic below depicts how EPS has changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).
We consider it positive that insiders have made significant purchases in the last year. Even so, future earnings will be far more important to whether current shareholders make money. Before buying or selling a stock, we always recommend a close examination of historic growth trends, available here..
A Different Perspective
While Apollo Tourism & Leisure shareholders are down 65% for the year, the market itself is up 16%. While the aim is to do better than that, it's worth recalling that even great long-term investments sometimes underperform for a year or more. Putting aside the last twelve months, it's good to see the share price has rebounded by 6.7%, in the last ninety days. Let's just hope this isn't the widely-feared 'dead cat bounce' (which would indicate further declines to come). It is all well and good that insiders have been buying shares, but we suggest you check here to see what price insiders were buying at.
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