Long term investing can be life changing when you buy and hold the truly great businesses. And we’ve seen some truly amazing gains over the years. To wit, the Y.H. Dimri Construction & Development Ltd (TLV:DIMRI) share price has soared 432% over five years. This just goes to show the value creation that some businesses can achieve. It’s also good to see the share price up 18% over the last quarter.
The past week has proven to be lucrative for Y.H. Dimri Construction & Development investors, so let’s see if fundamentals drove the company’s five-year performance.
See our latest analysis for Y.H. Dimri Construction & Development
While markets are a powerful pricing mechanism, share prices reflect investor sentiment, not just underlying business performance. 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.
Over half a decade, Y.H. Dimri Construction & Development managed to grow its earnings per share at 58% a year. The EPS growth is more impressive than the yearly share price gain of 40% over the same period. Therefore, it seems the market has become relatively pessimistic about the company.
The image below shows how EPS has tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).
It might be well worthwhile taking a look at our free report on Y.H. Dimri Construction & Development’s earnings, revenue and cash flow.
What About Dividends?
When looking at investment returns, it is important to consider the difference between total shareholder return (TSR) and share price return. The TSR incorporates the value of any spin-offs or discounted capital raisings, along with any dividends, based on the assumption that the dividends are reinvested. So for companies that pay a generous dividend, the TSR is often a lot higher than the share price return. As it happens, Y.H. Dimri Construction & Development’s TSR for the last 5 years was 515%, which exceeds the share price return mentioned earlier. And there’s no prize for guessing that the dividend payments largely explain the divergence!
A Different Perspective
It’s nice to see that Y.H. Dimri Construction & Development shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 124% over the last year. That’s including the dividend. Since the one-year TSR is better than the five-year TSR (the latter coming in at 44% 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. It’s always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Y.H. Dimri Construction & Development better, we need to consider many other factors. Consider for instance, the ever-present spectre of investment risk. We’ve identified 1 warning sign with Y.H. Dimri Construction & Development , and understanding them should be part of your investment process.
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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 IL exchanges.
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