The Boyd Gaming (NYSE:BYD) Share Price Has Gained 271%, So Why Not Pay It Some Attention?

The Boyd Gaming Corporation (NYSE:BYD) share price has had a bad week, falling 12%. Despite this, the stock is a strong performer over the last year, no doubt about that. We're very pleased to report the share price shot up 271% in that time. So it may be that the share price is simply cooling off after a strong rise. Investors should be wondering whether the business itself has the fundamental value required to continue to drive gains.

See our latest analysis for Boyd Gaming

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.

Over the last twelve months Boyd Gaming went from profitable to unprofitable. While this may prove temporary, we'd consider it a negative, so we would not have expected to see the share price up. It may be that the company has done well on other metrics.

Unfortunately Boyd Gaming's fell 34% over twelve months. So the fundamental metrics don't provide an obvious explanation for the share price gain.

The image below shows how earnings and revenue have tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).

We like that insiders have been buying shares in the last twelve months. Having said that, most people consider earnings and revenue growth trends to be a more meaningful guide to the business. So it makes a lot of sense to check out what analysts think Boyd Gaming will earn in the future (free profit forecasts).

A Different Perspective

It's good to see that Boyd Gaming has rewarded shareholders with a total shareholder return of 271% in the last twelve months. Since the one-year TSR is better than the five-year TSR (the latter coming in at 23% 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 Boyd Gaming better, we need to consider many other factors. Even so, be aware that Boyd Gaming is showing 3 warning signs in our investment analysis , and 1 of those shouldn't be ignored...

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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 US exchanges.

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