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If you want to compound wealth in the stock market, you can do so by buying an index fund. But if you pick the right individual stocks, you could make more than that. To wit, the Equinox Gold Corp. (TSE:EQX) share price is 25% higher than it was a year ago, much better than the market return of around 9.0% (not including dividends) in the same period. If it can keep that out-performance up over the long term, investors will do very well! Having said that, the longer term returns aren't so impressive, with stock gaining just 4.1% in three years.
Now it's worth having a look at the company's fundamentals too, because that will help us determine if the long term shareholder return has matched the performance of the underlying business.
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There is no denying that markets are sometimes efficient, but prices do not always reflect underlying business performance. 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 Equinox Gold grew its earnings per share, moving from a loss to a profit.
When a company has just transitioned to profitability, earnings per share growth is not always the best way to look at the share price action.
However the year on year revenue growth of 39% would help. Many businesses do go through a phase where they have to forgo some profits to drive business development, and sometimes its for the best.
The image below shows how earnings and revenue have tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).
We know that Equinox Gold has improved its bottom line lately, but what does the future have in store? This free report showing analyst forecasts should help you form a view on Equinox Gold
A Different Perspective
We're pleased to report that Equinox Gold shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 25% over one year. That certainly beats the loss of about 3% per year over the last half decade. This makes us a little wary, but the business might have turned around its fortunes. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Equinox Gold better, we need to consider many other factors. Even so, be aware that Equinox Gold is showing 3 warning signs in our investment analysis , and 1 of those doesn't sit too well with us...
We will like Equinox Gold better if we see some big insider buys. While we wait, check out this free list of undervalued stocks (mostly small caps) with considerable, recent, insider buying.