If You Had Bought Nitro Software (ASX:NTO) Stock A Year Ago, You Could Pocket A 95% Gain Today

Passive investing in index funds can generate returns that roughly match the overall market. But if you pick the right individual stocks, you could make more than that. To wit, the Nitro Software Limited (ASX:NTO) share price is 95% higher than it was a year ago, much better than the market decline of around 2.4% (not including dividends) in the same period. That's a solid performance by our standards! Note that businesses generally develop over the long term, so the returns over the last year might not reflect a long term trend.

View our latest analysis for Nitro Software

Nitro Software isn't currently profitable, so most analysts would look to revenue growth to get an idea of how fast the underlying business is growing. 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.

In the last year Nitro Software saw its revenue grow by 12%. That's not great considering the company is losing money. The modest growth is probably largely reflected in the share price, which is up 95%. While not a huge gain tht seems pretty reasonable. It could be worth keeping an eye on this one, especially if growth accelerates.

The company's revenue and earnings (over time) are depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).

Balance sheet strength is crucial. It might be well worthwhile taking a look at our free report on how its financial position has changed over time.

A Different Perspective

Nitro Software boasts a total shareholder return of 95% for the last year. The more recent returns haven't been as impressive as the longer term returns, coming in at just 0.6%. It seems likely the market is waiting on fundamental developments with the business before pushing the share price higher (or lower). It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Nitro Software better, we need to consider many other factors. For example, we've discovered 1 warning sign for Nitro Software that you should be aware of before investing here.

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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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