If You Had Bought Gigaset (ETR:GGS) Shares A Year Ago You'd Have Earned 46% Returns

Gigaset AG (ETR:GGS) shareholders might be concerned after seeing the share price drop 12% in the last week. But that doesn't change the fact that the returns over the last year have been pleasing. Looking at the full year, the company has easily bested an index fund by gaining 46%.

See our latest analysis for Gigaset

Given that Gigaset didn't make a profit in the last twelve months, we'll focus on revenue growth to form a quick view of its business development. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally expect to see good revenue growth. As you can imagine, fast revenue growth, when maintained, often leads to fast profit growth.

In the last year Gigaset saw its revenue shrink by 6.9%. Despite the lack of revenue growth, the stock has returned a solid 46% the last twelve months. To us that means that there isn't a lot of correlation between the past revenue performance and the share price, but a closer look at analyst forecasts and the bottom line may well explain a lot.

The image below shows how earnings and revenue have tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).

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A Different Perspective

It's good to see that Gigaset has rewarded shareholders with a total shareholder return of 46% in the last twelve months. Notably the five-year annualised TSR loss of 1.3% per year compares very unfavourably with the recent share price performance. This makes us a little wary, but the business might have turned around its fortunes. 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. Consider risks, for instance. Every company has them, and we've spotted 1 warning sign for Gigaset 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 DE exchanges.

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