Drilling Company of 1972 (CPH:DRLCO) shareholder returns have been favorable, earning 73% in 1 year

If you want to compound wealth in the stock market, you can do so by buying an index fund. But if you pick the right individual stocks, you could make more than that. To wit, the The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S (CPH:DRLCO) share price is 73% higher than it was a year ago, much better than the market return of around 32% (not including dividends) in the same period. That's a solid performance by our standards! Drilling Company of 1972 hasn't been listed for long, so it's still not clear if it is a long term winner.

The past week has proven to be lucrative for Drilling Company of 1972 investors, so let's see if fundamentals drove the company's one-year performance.

View our latest analysis for Drilling Company of 1972

Drilling Company of 1972 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 fast revenue growth can be easily extrapolated to forecast profits, often of considerable size.

Drilling Company of 1972 actually shrunk its revenue over the last year, with a reduction of 4.8%. The stock is up 73% in that time, a fine performance given the revenue drop. We can correlate the share price rise with revenue or profit growth, but it seems the market had previously expected weaker results, and sentiment around the stock is improving.

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

You can see how its balance sheet has strengthened (or weakened) over time in this free interactive graphic.

A Different Perspective

Drilling Company of 1972 shareholders should be happy with the total gain of 73% over the last twelve months. That's better than the more recent three month gain of 9.0%, implying that share price has plateaued recently. Having said that, we doubt shareholders would be concerned. It seems the market is simply waiting on more information, because if the business delivers so will the share price (eventually). Shareholders might want to examine this detailed historical graph of past earnings, revenue and cash flow.

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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 DK exchanges.

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