Did You Manage To Avoid Regeneron Pharmaceuticals's (NASDAQ:REGN) 25% Share Price Drop?
Passive investing in an index fund is a good way to ensure your own returns roughly match the overall market. When you buy individual stocks, you can make higher profits, but you also face the risk of under-performance. For example, the Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:REGN) share price is down 25% in the last year. That contrasts poorly with the market return of 5.2%. Even if shareholders bought some time ago, they wouldn't be particularly happy: the stock is down 24% in three years. The silver lining is that the stock is up 4.0% in about a week.
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While the efficient markets hypothesis continues to be taught by some, it has been proven that markets are over-reactive dynamic systems, and investors are not always rational. 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.
During the unfortunate twelve months during which the Regeneron Pharmaceuticals share price fell, it actually saw its earnings per share (EPS) improve by 28%. It could be that the share price was previously over-hyped.
It's fair to say that the share price does not seem to be reflecting the EPS growth. So it's well worth checking out some other metrics, too.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals's revenue is actually up 17% over the last year. Since the fundamental metrics don't readily explain the share price drop, there might be an opportunity if the market has overreacted.
The graphic below depicts how earnings and revenue have changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is well known by investors, and plenty of clever analysts have tried to predict the future profit levels. So it makes a lot of sense to check out what analysts think Regeneron Pharmaceuticals will earn in the future (free analyst consensus estimates)
A Different Perspective
Investors in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals had a tough year, with a total loss of 25%, against a market gain of about 5.2%. 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. Unfortunately, last year's performance may indicate unresolved challenges, given that it was worse than the annualised loss of 3.2% over the last half decade. Generally speaking long term share price weakness can be a bad sign, though contrarian investors might want to research the stock in hope of a turnaround. Before spending more time on Regeneron Pharmaceuticals it might be wise to click here to see if insiders have been buying or selling shares.
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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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