G N A Axles'(NSE:GNA) Share Price Is Down 31% Over The Past Three Years.

While not a mind-blowing move, it is good to see that the G N A Axles Limited (NSE:GNA) share price has gained 12% in the last three months. But that cannot eclipse the less-than-impressive returns over the last three years. Truth be told the share price declined 31% in three years and that return, Dear Reader, falls short of what you could have got from passive investing with an index fund.

Check out our latest analysis for G N A Axles

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.

During the three years that the share price fell, G N A Axles' earnings per share (EPS) dropped by 1.8% each year. The share price decline of 12% is actually steeper than the EPS slippage. So it seems the market was too confident about the business, in the past.

The image below shows how EPS has tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).

This free interactive report on G N A Axles' earnings, revenue and cash flow is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.

A Different Perspective

G N A Axles shareholders are down 17% for the year, but the broader market is up 0.2%. Of course the long term matters more than the short term, and even great stocks will sometimes have a poor year. Shareholders have lost 9.0% per year over the last three years, so the share price drop has become steeper, over the last year; a potential symptom of as yet unsolved challenges. Although Baron Rothschild famously said to "buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own", he also focusses on high quality stocks with solid prospects. I find it very interesting to look at share price over the long term as a proxy for business performance. But to truly gain insight, we need to consider other information, too. Even so, be aware that G N A Axles 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 IN exchanges.

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