Tubos Reunidos (BME:TRG) pulls back 13% this week, but still delivers shareholders impressive 18% CAGR over 5 years

While Tubos Reunidos, S.A. (BME:TRG) shareholders are probably generally happy, the stock hasn't had particularly good run recently, with the share price falling 16% in the last quarter. But that doesn't change the fact that the returns over the last five years have been very strong. In fact, the share price is 132% higher today. We think it's more important to dwell on the long term returns than the short term returns. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it's cheap now.

Since the long term performance has been good but there's been a recent pullback of 13%, let's check if the fundamentals match the share price.

See our latest analysis for Tubos Reunidos

To paraphrase Benjamin Graham: Over the short term the market is a voting machine, but over the long term it's a weighing machine. 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.

During the last half decade, Tubos Reunidos became profitable. Sometimes, the start of profitability is a major inflection point that can signal fast earnings growth to come, which in turn justifies very strong share price gains.

The image below shows how EPS has tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).

This free interactive report on Tubos Reunidos' earnings, revenue and cash flow is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.

A Different Perspective

Tubos Reunidos shareholders gained a total return of 4.5% during the year. But that return falls short of the market. If we look back over five years, the returns are even better, coming in at 18% per year for five years. Maybe the share price is just taking a breather while the business executes on its growth strategy. While it is well worth considering the different impacts that market conditions can have on the share price, there are other factors that are even more important. For example, we've discovered 2 warning signs for Tubos Reunidos (1 is potentially serious!) 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 Spanish exchanges.

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