Further weakness as Vicore Pharma Holding (STO:VICO) drops 12% this week, taking three-year losses to 19%

While not a mind-blowing move, it is good to see that the Vicore Pharma Holding AB (publ) (STO:VICO) share price has gained 28% in the last three months. But that doesn't help the fact that the three year return is less impressive. After all, the share price is down 19% in the last three years, significantly under-performing the market.

After losing 12% this past week, it's worth investigating the company's fundamentals to see what we can infer from past performance.

See our latest analysis for Vicore Pharma Holding

Vicore Pharma Holding isn't currently profitable, so most analysts would look to revenue growth to get an idea of how fast the underlying business is growing. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally hope to see good revenue growth. As you can imagine, fast revenue growth, when maintained, often leads to fast profit growth.

In the last three years, Vicore Pharma Holding saw its revenue grow by 172% per year, compound. That is faster than most pre-profit companies. While its revenue increased, the share price dropped at a rate of 6% per year. That seems like an unlucky result for holders. It's possible that the prior share price assumed unrealistically high future growth. Before considering a purchase, investors should consider how quickly expenses are growing, relative to revenue.

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

This free interactive report on Vicore Pharma Holding's balance sheet strength is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.

A Different Perspective

While the broader market gained around 23% in the last year, Vicore Pharma Holding shareholders lost 14%. Even the share prices of good stocks drop sometimes, but we want to see improvements in the fundamental metrics of a business, before getting too interested. Longer term investors wouldn't be so upset, since they would have made 0.6%, each year, over five years. If the fundamental data continues to indicate long term sustainable growth, the current sell-off could be an opportunity worth considering. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Vicore Pharma Holding better, we need to consider many other factors. Even so, be aware that Vicore Pharma Holding is showing 2 warning signs in our investment analysis , you should know about...

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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 Swedish exchanges.

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