INFINITT Healthcare's(KOSDAQ:071200) Share Price Is Down 29% Over The Past Five Years.

INFINITT Healthcare Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ:071200) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 12% in the last month. But if you look at the last five years the returns have not been good. In fact, the share price is down 29%, which falls well short of the return you could get by buying an index fund.

See our latest analysis for INFINITT Healthcare

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.

Looking back five years, both INFINITT Healthcare's share price and EPS declined; the latter at a rate of 10% per year. This fall in the EPS is worse than the 7% compound annual share price fall. So investors might expect EPS to bounce back -- or they may have previously foreseen the EPS decline.

The graphic below depicts how EPS has changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).

Before buying or selling a stock, we always recommend a close examination of historic growth trends, available here.

A Different Perspective

INFINITT Healthcare provided a TSR of 22% over the last twelve months. But that was short of the market average. But at least that's still a gain! Over five years the TSR has been a reduction of 5% per year, over five years. So this might be a sign the business has turned its fortunes around. 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. To that end, you should learn about the 3 warning signs we've spotted with INFINITT Healthcare (including 1 which is is significant) .

Of course, you might find a fantastic investment by looking elsewhere. So take a peek at this free list of companies we expect will grow earnings.

Please note, the market returns quoted in this article reflect the market weighted average returns of stocks that currently trade on KR exchanges.

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