ICP Das'(GTSM:3577) Share Price Is Down 17% Over The Past Year.

Passive investing in an index fund is a good way to ensure your own returns roughly match the overall market. But if you buy individual stocks, you can do both better or worse than that. Unfortunately the ICP Das Co., Ltd. (GTSM:3577) share price slid 17% over twelve months. That's disappointing when you consider the market returned 33%. At least the damage isn't so bad if you look at the last three years, since the stock is down 0.7% in that time. Unhappily, the share price slid 2.8% in the last week.

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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...' One flawed but reasonable way to assess how sentiment around a company has changed is to compare the earnings per share (EPS) with the share price.

Unfortunately ICP Das reported an EPS drop of 23% for the last year. The share price fall of 17% isn't as bad as the reduction in earnings per share. So despite the weak per-share profits, some investors are probably relieved the situation wasn't more difficult.

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

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

A Different Perspective

Investors in ICP Das had a tough year, with a total loss of 15% (including dividends), against a market gain of about 33%. 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. On the bright side, long term shareholders have made money, with a gain of 6% per year over half a decade. If the fundamental data continues to indicate long term sustainable growth, the current sell-off could be an opportunity worth considering. I find it very interesting to look at share price over the long term as a proxy for business performance. But to truly gain insight, we need to consider other information, too. For example, we've discovered 3 warning signs for ICP Das (1 is significant!) that you should be aware of before investing here.

We will like ICP Das better if we see some big insider buys. While we wait, check out this free list of growing companies with considerable, recent, insider buying.

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

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