Yahoo Finance O'Reilly Automotive's (NASDAQ:ORLY) 20% CAGR outpaced the company's earnings growth over the same five-year period
The most you can lose on any stock (assuming you don't use leverage) is 100% of your money. But on the bright side, if you buy shares in a high quality company at the right price, you can gain well over 100%. Long term O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ:ORLY) shareholders would be well aware of this, since the stock is up 150% in five years. Meanwhile the share price is 3.6% higher than it was a week ago.
After a strong gain in the past week, it's worth seeing if longer term returns have been driven by improving fundamentals.
Check out our latest analysis for O'Reilly Automotive
While markets are a powerful pricing mechanism, share prices reflect investor sentiment, not just underlying business performance. One way to examine how market sentiment has changed over time is to look at the interaction between a company's share price and its earnings per share (EPS).
Over half a decade, O'Reilly Automotive managed to grow its earnings per share at 23% a year. This EPS growth is reasonably close to the 20% average annual increase in the share price. That suggests that the market sentiment around the company hasn't changed much over that time. Indeed, it would appear the share price is reacting to the EPS.
You can see how EPS has changed over time in the image below (click on the chart to see the exact values).
We know that O'Reilly Automotive has improved its bottom line lately, but is it going to grow revenue? If you're interested, you could check this free report showing consensus revenue forecasts.
A Different Perspective
It's nice to see that O'Reilly Automotive shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 45% over the last year. Since the one-year TSR is better than the five-year TSR (the latter coming in at 20% 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 O'Reilly Automotive better, we need to consider many other factors. Consider risks, for instance. Every company has them, and we've spotted 2 warning signs for O'Reilly Automotive you should know about.
We will like O'Reilly Automotive 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 US exchanges.
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