The one-year shareholder returns and company earnings persist lower as China Crystal New Material HoldingsLtd (KOSDAQ:900250) stock falls a further 12% in past week

Even the best stock pickers will make plenty of bad investments. Anyone who held China Crystal New Material Holdings Co.,Ltd. (KOSDAQ:900250) over the last year knows what a loser feels like. The share price is down a hefty 67% in that time. Notably, shareholders had a tough run over the longer term, too, with a drop of 39% in the last three years. Furthermore, it's down 34% in about a quarter. That's not much fun for holders.

Given the past week has been tough on shareholders, let's investigate the fundamentals and see what we can learn.

Check out our latest analysis for China Crystal New Material HoldingsLtd

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

Unfortunately China Crystal New Material HoldingsLtd reported an EPS drop of 53% for the last year. This reduction in EPS is not as bad as the 67% share price fall. So it seems the market was too confident about the business, a year ago.

The image below shows how EPS has tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).

This free interactive report on China Crystal New Material HoldingsLtd's earnings, revenue and cash flow is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.

A Different Perspective

We regret to report that China Crystal New Material HoldingsLtd shareholders are down 67% for the year. Unfortunately, that's worse than the broader market decline of 1.9%. However, it could simply be that the share price has been impacted by broader market jitters. It might be worth keeping an eye on the fundamentals, in case there's a good opportunity. Unfortunately, last year's performance may indicate unresolved challenges, given that it was worse than the annualised loss of 11% over the last half decade. Generally speaking long term share price weakness can be a bad sign, though contrarian investors might want to research the stock in hope of a turnaround. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand China Crystal New Material HoldingsLtd better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should learn about the 5 warning signs we've spotted with China Crystal New Material HoldingsLtd (including 1 which makes us a bit uncomfortable) .

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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 South Korean exchanges.

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