How Much Did Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación's(BME:A3M) Shareholders Earn From Share Price Movements Over The Last Five Years?

Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A. (BME:A3M) shareholders will doubtless be very grateful to see the share price up 36% in the last quarter. But that is little comfort to those holding over the last half decade, sitting on a big loss. In fact, the share price has declined rather badly, down some 62% in that time. So we're hesitant to put much weight behind the short term increase. But it could be that the fall was overdone.

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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.

What about the Total Shareholder Return (TSR)?

Investors should note that there's a difference between Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación's total shareholder return (TSR) and its share price change, which we've covered above. Arguably the TSR is a more complete return calculation because it accounts for the value of dividends (as if they were reinvested), along with the hypothetical value of any discounted capital that have been offered to shareholders. Its history of dividend payouts mean that Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación's TSR, which was a 51% drop over the last 5 years, was not as bad as the share price return.

A Different Perspective

It's good to see that Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación has rewarded shareholders with a total shareholder return of 1.5% in the last twelve months. That certainly beats the loss of about 9% per year over the last half decade. 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 Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación better, we need to consider many other factors. Consider risks, for instance. Every company has them, and we've spotted 2 warning signs for Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación 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 ES exchanges.

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