Introducing Hain Celestial Group (NASDAQ:HAIN), A Stock That Climbed 64% In The Last Year

The simplest way to invest in stocks is to buy exchange traded funds. But investors can boost returns by picking market-beating companies to own shares in. To wit, the The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAIN) share price is 64% higher than it was a year ago, much better than the market return of around 28% (not including dividends) in the same period. That's a solid performance by our standards! Zooming out, the stock is actually down 34% in the last three years.

See our latest analysis for Hain Celestial Group

To paraphrase Benjamin Graham: Over the short term the market is a voting machine, but over the long term it's a weighing machine. 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.

During the last year Hain Celestial Group saw its earnings per share (EPS) drop below zero. While this may prove temporary, we'd consider it a negative, so we would not have expected to see the share price up. We might get a clue to explain the share price move by looking to other metrics.

Unfortunately Hain Celestial Group's fell 5.1% over twelve months. So the fundamental metrics don't provide an obvious explanation for the share price gain.

The company's revenue and earnings (over time) are depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).

A Different Perspective

It's nice to see that Hain Celestial Group shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 64% over the last year. That certainly beats the loss of about 14% per year over the last half decade. This makes us a little wary, but the business might have turned around its fortunes. You could get a better understanding of Hain Celestial Group's growth by checking out this more detailed historical graph of earnings, revenue and cash flow.

We will like Hain Celestial Group 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 US exchanges.

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