The five-year shareholder returns and company earnings persist lower as Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings (SHSE:600053) stock falls a further 8.7% in past week

For many, the main point of investing is to generate higher returns than the overall market. But in any portfolio, there will be mixed results between individual stocks. At this point some shareholders may be questioning their investment in Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. (SHSE:600053), since the last five years saw the share price fall 48%. Shareholders have had an even rougher run lately, with the share price down 20% in the last 90 days.

Since Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings has shed CN¥516m from its value in the past 7 days, let's see if the longer term decline has been driven by the business' economics.

Check out our latest analysis for Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings

To paraphrase Benjamin Graham: Over the short term the market is a voting machine, but over the long term it's a weighing machine. By comparing earnings per share (EPS) and share price changes over time, we can get a feel for how investor attitudes to a company have morphed over time.

Looking back five years, both Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings' share price and EPS declined; the latter at a rate of 32% per year. The share price decline of 12% per year isn't as bad as the EPS decline. The relatively muted share price reaction might be because the market expects the business to turn around. With a P/E ratio of 123.86, it's fair to say the market sees a brighter future for the business.

You can see how EPS has changed over time in the image below (click on the chart to see the exact values).

Dive deeper into Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings' key metrics by checking this interactive graph of Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings's earnings, revenue and cash flow.

A Different Perspective

We're pleased to report that Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 2.0% over one year. And that does include the dividend. There's no doubt those recent returns are much better than the TSR loss of 8% per year over five years. We generally put more weight on the long term performance over the short term, but the recent improvement could hint at a (positive) inflection point within the business. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings better, we need to consider many other factors. For example, we've discovered 4 warning signs for Kunwu Jiuding Investment Holdings (1 makes us a bit uncomfortable!) 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 Chinese exchanges.

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