Yahoo Finance Introducing Intermap Technologies (TSE:IMP), A Stock That Climbed 96% In The Last Year
These days it's easy to simply buy an index fund, and your returns should (roughly) match the market. But investors can boost returns by picking market-beating companies to own shares in. For example, the Intermap Technologies Corporation (TSE:IMP) share price is up 96% in the last year, clearly besting the market return of around 11% (not including dividends). That's a solid performance by our standards! Zooming out, the stock is actually down 65% in the last three years.
See our latest analysis for Intermap Technologies
Intermap Technologies 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 year Intermap Technologies saw its revenue shrink by 36%. Despite the lack of revenue growth, the stock has returned a solid 96% the last twelve months. We can correlate the share price rise with revenue or profit growth, but it seems the market had previously expected weaker results, and sentiment around the stock is improving.
The company's revenue and earnings (over time) are depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).
It's probably worth noting we've seen significant insider buying in the last quarter, which we consider a positive. That said, we think earnings and revenue growth trends are even more important factors to consider. This free interactive report on Intermap Technologies's earnings, revenue and cash flow is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.
A Different Perspective
It's nice to see that Intermap Technologies shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 96% over the last year. There's no doubt those recent returns are much better than the TSR loss of 21% per year over five years. We generally put more weight on the long term performance over the short term, but the recent improvement could hint at a (positive) inflection point within the business. It is all well and good that insiders have been buying shares, but we suggest you check here to see what price insiders were buying at.
Intermap Technologies is not the only stock that insiders are buying. For those who like to find winning investments this free list of growing companies with recent insider purchasing, could be just the ticket.
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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