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N.B.I. Industrial Finance Company Limited (NSE:NBIFIN) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 20% in the last quarter. But that doesn't change the fact that the returns over the last year have been less than pleasing. The cold reality is that the stock has dropped 16% in one year, under-performing the market.
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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 imperfect but simple way to consider how the market perception of a company has shifted is to compare the change in the earnings per share (EPS) with the share price movement.
During the unfortunate twelve months during which the N.B.I. Industrial Finance share price fell, it actually saw its earnings per share (EPS) improve by 59%. Of course, the situation might betray previous over-optimism about growth. The divergence between the EPS and the share price is quite notable, during the year. So it's easy to justify a look at some other metrics.
N.B.I. Industrial Finance's revenue is actually up 42% 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 chart below shows how revenue and earnings have changed with time, (if you click on the chart you can see the actual values).
Take a more thorough look at N.B.I. Industrial Finance's financial health with this free report on its balance sheet.
A Different Perspective
Given that the market gained 1.1% in the last year, N.B.I. Industrial Finance shareholders might be miffed that they lost 16%. While the aim is to do better than that, it's worth recalling that even great long-term investments sometimes underperform for a year or more. It's great to see a nice little 20% rebound in the last three months. This could just be a bounce because the selling was too aggressive, but fingers crossed it's the start of a new trend. Before forming an opinion on N.B.I. Industrial Finance you might want to consider these 3 valuation metrics.
We will like N.B.I. Industrial Finance 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 IN exchanges.
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