If You Had Bought Access Intelligence (LON:ACC) Shares Three Years Ago You'd Have Earned 109% Returns
The worst result, after buying shares in a company (assuming no leverage), would be if you lose all the money you put in. But in contrast you can make much more than 100% if the company does well. To wit, the Access Intelligence Plc (LON:ACC) share price has flown 109% in the last three years. Most would be happy with that. Also pleasing for shareholders was the 24% gain in the last three months.
View our latest analysis for Access Intelligence
Access Intelligence isn't currently profitable, so most analysts would look to revenue growth to get an idea of how fast the underlying business is growing. Shareholders of unprofitable companies usually expect strong revenue growth. As you can imagine, fast revenue growth, when maintained, often leads to fast profit growth.
Access Intelligence's revenue trended up 27% each year over three years. That's well above most pre-profit companies. Meanwhile, the share price performance has been pretty solid at 28% compound over three years. But it does seem like the market is paying attention to strong revenue growth. That's not to say we think the share price is too high. In fact, it might be worth keeping an eye on this one.
The company's revenue and earnings (over time) are depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).
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A Different Perspective
We're pleased to report that Access Intelligence shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 51% over one year. That's better than the annualised return of 10% over half a decade, implying that the company is doing better recently. 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 Access Intelligence better, we need to consider many other factors. For instance, we've identified 3 warning signs for Access Intelligence (1 makes us a bit uncomfortable) that you should be aware of.
But note: Access Intelligence may not be the best stock to buy. So take a peek at this free list of interesting companies with past earnings growth (and further growth forecast).
Please note, the market returns quoted in this article reflect the market weighted average returns of stocks that currently trade on GB exchanges.
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