Announcing: ATEME (EPA:ATEME) Stock Soared An Exciting 377% In The Last Five Years

Long term investing can be life changing when you buy and hold the truly great businesses. And highest quality companies can see their share prices grow by huge amounts. For example, the ATEME SA (EPA:ATEME) share price is up a whopping 377% in the last half decade, a handsome return for long term holders. This just goes to show the value creation that some businesses can achieve. We note the stock price is up 2.5% in the last seven days.

Check out our latest analysis for ATEME

To quote Buffett, 'Ships will sail around the world but the Flat Earth Society will flourish. There will continue to be wide discrepancies between price and value in the marketplace...' By comparing earnings per share (EPS) and share price changes over time, we can get a feel for how investor attitudes to a company have morphed over time.

During the last half decade, ATEME 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).

Dive deeper into ATEME's key metrics by checking this interactive graph of ATEME's earnings, revenue and cash flow.

A Different Perspective

We're pleased to report that ATEME shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 84% over one year. That's better than the annualised return of 37% over half a decade, implying that the company is doing better recently. In the best case scenario, this may hint at some real business momentum, implying that now could be a great time to delve deeper. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand ATEME better, we need to consider many other factors. Even so, be aware that ATEME is showing 2 warning signs in our investment analysis , 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 FR exchanges.

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