A Look At VPower Group International Holdings' (HKG:1608) Share Price Returns

If you are building a properly diversified stock portfolio, the chances are some of your picks will perform badly. But the long term shareholders of VPower Group International Holdings Limited (HKG:1608) have had an unfortunate run in the last three years. Regrettably, they have had to cope with a 58% drop in the share price over that period. Furthermore, it's down 24% in about a quarter. That's not much fun for holders.

View our latest analysis for VPower Group International Holdings

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...' 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.

Although the share price is down over three years, VPower Group International Holdings actually managed to grow EPS by 5.3% per year in that time. This is quite a puzzle, and suggests there might be something temporarily buoying the share price. Alternatively, growth expectations may have been unreasonable in the past.

Since the change in EPS doesn't seem to correlate with the change in share price, it's worth taking a look at other metrics.

The modest 1.3% dividend yield is unlikely to be guiding the market view of the stock. Revenue is actually up 25% over the three years, so the share price drop doesn't seem to hinge on revenue, either. It's probably worth investigating VPower Group International Holdings further; while we may be missing something on this analysis, there might also be an opportunity.

You can see below how earnings and revenue have changed over time (discover the exact values by clicking on the image).

We like that insiders have been buying shares in the last twelve months. Even so, future earnings will be far more important to whether current shareholders make money. So it makes a lot of sense to check out what analysts think VPower Group International Holdings will earn in the future (free profit forecasts).

A Different Perspective

VPower Group International Holdings shareholders are down 8.6% for the year, (even including dividends), but the broader market is up 36%. However, keep in mind that even the best stocks will sometimes underperform the market over a twelve month period. However, the loss over the last year isn't as bad as the 16% per annum loss investors have suffered over the last three years. We'd need clear signs of growth in the underlying business before we could muster much enthusiasm for this one. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand VPower Group International Holdings better, we need to consider many other factors. Case in point: We've spotted 3 warning signs for VPower Group International Holdings you should be aware of, and 1 of them is significant.

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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 HK exchanges.

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