Would Shareholders Who Purchased Jindal Stainless'(NSE:JSL) Stock Three Years Be Happy With The Share price Today?

While not a mind-blowing move, it is good to see that the Jindal Stainless Limited (NSE:JSL) share price has gained 14% in the last three months. But that doesn't change the fact that the returns over the last three years have been disappointing. In that time, the share price dropped 61%. So it's good to see it climbing back up. The rise has some hopeful, but turnarounds are often precarious.

View our latest analysis for Jindal Stainless

There is no denying that markets are sometimes efficient, but prices do not always reflect underlying business performance. 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.

Jindal Stainless saw its EPS decline at a compound rate of 14% per year, over the last three years. This reduction in EPS is slower than the 27% annual reduction in the share price. So it seems the market was too confident about the business, in the past.

The company's earnings per share (over time) is depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).

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

A Different Perspective

It's good to see that Jindal Stainless has rewarded shareholders with a total shareholder return of 23% in the last twelve months. There's no doubt those recent returns are much better than the TSR loss of 2.7% per year over five years. The long term loss makes us cautious, but the short term TSR gain certainly hints at a brighter future. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Jindal Stainless better, we need to consider many other factors. For example, we've discovered 3 warning signs for Jindal Stainless (1 is a bit unpleasant!) 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 IN exchanges.

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