Sino-i Technology (HKG:250) Shareholders Booked A 51% Gain In The Last Five Years

Stock pickers are generally looking for stocks that will outperform the broader market. And in our experience, buying the right stocks can give your wealth a significant boost. To wit, the Sino-i Technology share price has climbed 51% in five years, easily topping the market return of 21% (ignoring dividends). However, more recent returns haven’t been as impressive as that, with the stock returning just 28% in the last year, including dividends.

Check out our latest analysis for Sino-i Technology

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 five years of share price growth, Sino-i Technology moved from a loss to profitability. That’s generally thought to be a genuine positive, so we would expect to see an increasing share price. Since the company was unprofitable five years ago, but not three years ago, it’s worth taking a look at the returns in the last three years, too. We can see that the Sino-i Technology share price is down 35% in the last three years. In the same period, EPS is up 99% per year. So there seems to be a mismatch between the positive EPS growth and the change in the share price, which is down -13% per year.

You can see how EPS has changed over time in the image below (click on the chart to see the exact values).

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We’re pleased to report that the CEO is remunerated more modestly than most CEOs at similarly capitalized companies. It’s always worth keeping an eye on CEO pay, but a more important question is whether the company will grow earnings throughout the years. It might be well worthwhile taking a look at our free report on Sino-i Technology’s earnings, revenue and cash flow.

What about the Total Shareholder Return (TSR)?

We’ve already covered Sino-i Technology’s share price action, but we should also mention its total shareholder return (TSR). The TSR is a return calculation that accounts for the value of cash dividends (assuming that any dividend received was reinvested) and the calculated value of any discounted capital raisings and spin-offs. We note that Sino-i Technology’s TSR, at 117% is higher than its share price return of 51%. When you consider it hasn’t been paying a dividend, this data suggests shareholders have benefitted from a spin-off, or had the opportunity to acquire attractively priced shares in a discounted capital raising.

A Different Perspective

It’s nice to see that Sino-i Technology shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 28% over the last year. Since the one-year TSR is better than the five-year TSR (the latter coming in at 17% 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. Shareholders might want to examine this detailed historical graph of past earnings, revenue and cash flow.

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