Yahoo Finance Investors Who Bought Tigers Realm Coal (ASX:TIG) Shares Three Years Ago Are Now Up 73%
One simple way to benefit from the stock market is to buy an index fund. But if you pick the right individual stocks, you could make more than that. For example, the Tigers Realm Coal Limited (ASX:TIG) share price is up 73% in the last three years, clearly besting than the market return of around 15% (not including dividends). On the other hand, the returns haven't been quite so good recently, with shareholders up just 2.3%.
Check out our latest analysis for Tigers Realm Coal
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 imperfect but simple way to consider how the market perception of a company has shifted is to compare the change in the earnings per share (EPS) with the share price movement.
During three years of share price growth, Tigers Realm Coal moved from a loss to profitability. That would generally be considered a positive, so we'd expect the share price to be up.
The graphic below depicts how EPS has changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).
Before buying or selling a stock, we always recommend a close examination of historic growth trends, available here..
A Different Perspective
Tigers Realm Coal shareholders are up 2.3% for the year. But that was short of the market average. But at least that's still a gain! Over five years the TSR has been a reduction of 20% per year, over five years. So this might be a sign the business has turned its fortunes around. Before spending more time on Tigers Realm Coal it might be wise to click here to see if insiders have been buying or selling shares.
For those who like to find winning investments this free list of growing companies with recent insider purchasing, could be just the ticket.
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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