In order to justify the effort of selecting individual stocks, it’s worth striving to beat the returns from a market index fund. But its virtually certain that sometimes you will buy stocks that fall short of the market average returns. We regret to report that long term Hankook Technology Group Co., Ltd. (KRX:000240) shareholders have had that experience, with the share price dropping 24% in three years, versus a market return of about 30%. There was little comfort for shareholders in the last week as the price declined a further 1.3%.
See our latest analysis for Hankook Technology Group
To paraphrase Benjamin Graham: Over the short term the market is a voting machine, but over the long term it’s a weighing machine. 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.
Hankook Technology Group saw its EPS decline at a compound rate of 18% per year, over the last three years. This fall in the EPS is worse than the 9% compound annual share price fall. So, despite the prior disappointment, shareholders must have some confidence the situation will improve, longer term.
The graphic below depicts how EPS has changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).
It might be well worthwhile taking a look at our free report on Hankook Technology Group’s earnings, revenue and cash flow.
What About Dividends?
It is important to consider the total shareholder return, as well as the share price return, for any given stock. Whereas the share price return only reflects the change in the share price, the TSR includes the value of dividends (assuming they were reinvested) and the benefit of any discounted capital raising or spin-off. It’s fair to say that the TSR gives a more complete picture for stocks that pay a dividend. As it happens, Hankook Technology Group’s TSR for the last 3 years was -19%, which exceeds the share price return mentioned earlier. This is largely a result of its dividend payments!
A Different Perspective
Hankook Technology Group shareholders gained a total return of 9.1% during 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 1.2% per year, over five years. It could well be that the business is stabilizing. It’s always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Hankook Technology Group better, we need to consider many other factors. Even so, be aware that Hankook Technology Group is showing 1 warning sign 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 KR exchanges.
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