Would Shareholders Who Purchased Siemens Healthineers' (ETR:SHL) Stock Year Be Happy With The Share price Today?

Investors can approximate the average market return by buying an index fund. But if you buy individual stocks, you can do both better or worse than that. Investors in Siemens Healthineers AG (ETR:SHL) have tasted that bitter downside in the last year, as the share price dropped 13%. That's disappointing when you consider the market returned 4.7%. Siemens Healthineers may have better days ahead, of course; we've only looked at a one year period. It's up 1.2% in the last seven days.

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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.

Unhappily, Siemens Healthineers had to report a 10% decline in EPS over the last year. This reduction in EPS is not as bad as the 13% share price fall. So it seems the market was too confident about the business, a year ago.

The company's earnings per share (over time) is depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).

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A Different Perspective

While Siemens Healthineers shareholders are down 11% for the year (even including dividends), the market itself is up 4.7%. While the aim is to do better than that, it's worth recalling that even great long-term investments sometimes underperform for a year or more. It's great to see a nice little 0.6% rebound in the last three months. This could just be a bounce because the selling was too aggressive, but fingers crossed it's the start of a new trend. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Siemens Healthineers better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should be aware of the 3 warning signs we've spotted with Siemens Healthineers .

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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 DE exchanges.

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