The Federal Hydro-Generating Company - RusHydro (MCX:HYDR) Share Price Has Gained 44% And Shareholders Are Hoping For More

Passive investing in index funds can generate returns that roughly match the overall market. But if you pick the right individual stocks, you could make more than that. To wit, the Public Joint-Stock Company Federal Hydro-Generating Company - RusHydro (MCX:HYDR) share price is 44% higher than it was a year ago, much better than the market decline of around 6.0% (not including dividends) in the same period. That's a solid performance by our standards! On the other hand, longer term shareholders have had a tougher run, with the stock falling 8.7% in three years.

View our latest analysis for Federal Hydro-Generating Company - RusHydro

While markets are a powerful pricing mechanism, share prices reflect investor sentiment, not just 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.

During the last year, Federal Hydro-Generating Company - RusHydro actually saw its earnings per share drop 20%.

So we don't think that investors are paying too much attention to EPS. Indeed, when EPS is declining but the share price is up, it often means the market is considering other factors.

We haven't seen Federal Hydro-Generating Company - RusHydro increase dividend payments yet, so the yield probably hasn't helped drive the share higher. It seems far more likely that the 6.3% boost to the revenue over the last year, is making the difference. After all, it's not necessarily a bad thing if a business sacrifices profits today in pursuit of profit tomorrow (metaphorically speaking).

The graphic below depicts how earnings and revenue have changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).

Balance sheet strength is crucial. It might be well worthwhile taking a look at our free report on how its financial position has changed over time.

What About Dividends?

As well as measuring the share price return, investors should also consider the total shareholder return (TSR). Whereas the share price return only reflects the change in the share price, the TSR includes the value of dividends (assuming they were reinvested) and the benefit of any discounted capital raising or spin-off. It's fair to say that the TSR gives a more complete picture for stocks that pay a dividend. As it happens, Federal Hydro-Generating Company - RusHydro's TSR for the last year was 51%, which exceeds the share price return mentioned earlier. The dividends paid by the company have thusly boosted the total shareholder return.

A Different Perspective

It's good to see that Federal Hydro-Generating Company - RusHydro has rewarded shareholders with a total shareholder return of 51% in the last twelve months. That's including the dividend. Since the one-year TSR is better than the five-year TSR (the latter coming in at 11% per year), it would seem that the stock's performance has improved in recent times. Someone with an optimistic perspective could view the recent improvement in TSR as indicating that the business itself is getting better with time. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Federal Hydro-Generating Company - RusHydro better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should be aware of the 2 warning signs we've spotted with Federal Hydro-Generating Company - RusHydro .

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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 RU exchanges.

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