Did You Miss AnalytixInsight's (CVE:ALY) Whopping 413% Share Price Gain?

Buying shares in the best businesses can build meaningful wealth for you and your family. While the best companies are hard to find, but they can generate massive returns over long periods. Don't believe it? Then look at the AnalytixInsight Inc. (CVE:ALY) share price. It's 413% higher than it was five years ago. If that doesn't get you thinking about long term investing, we don't know what will. Also pleasing for shareholders was the 46% gain in the last three months. The company reported its financial results recently; you can catch up on the latest numbers by reading our company report.

View our latest analysis for AnalytixInsight

AnalytixInsight 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.

In the last 5 years AnalytixInsight saw its revenue grow at 28% per year. Even measured against other revenue-focussed companies, that's a good result. Arguably, this is well and truly reflected in the strong share price gain of 39%(per year) over the same period. Despite the strong run, top performers like AnalytixInsight have been known to go on winning for decades. On the face of it, this looks lke a good opportunity, although we note sentiment seems very positive already.

You can see below how earnings and revenue have changed over time (discover the exact values by clicking on the image).

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This free interactive report on AnalytixInsight's balance sheet strength is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.

A Different Perspective

It's good to see that AnalytixInsight has rewarded shareholders with a total shareholder return of 67% in the last twelve months. That's better than the annualised return of 39% 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 AnalytixInsight better, we need to consider many other factors. Take risks, for example - AnalytixInsight has 4 warning signs we think you should be aware of.

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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 CA exchanges.

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