Yahoo Finance Investors Who Bought McCoy Global (TSE:MCB) Shares Five Years Ago Are Now Down 92%
Long term investing works well, but it doesn't always work for each individual stock. We don't wish catastrophic capital loss on anyone. Imagine if you held McCoy Global Inc. (TSE:MCB) for half a decade as the share price tanked 92%. And we doubt long term believers are the only worried holders, since the stock price has declined 63% over the last twelve months. Shareholders have had an even rougher run lately, with the share price down 36% in the last 90 days.
While a drop like that is definitely a body blow, money isn't as important as health and happiness.
View our latest analysis for McCoy Global
Given that McCoy Global didn't make a profit in the last twelve months, we'll focus on revenue growth to form a quick view of its business development. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally expect to see good revenue growth. That's because it's hard to be confident a company will be sustainable if revenue growth is negligible, and it never makes a profit.
Over half a decade McCoy Global reduced its trailing twelve month revenue by 28% for each year. That puts it in an unattractive cohort, to put it mildly. So it's not altogether surprising to see the share price down 39% per year in the same time period. This kind of price performance makes us very wary, especially when combined with falling revenue. Of course, the poor performance could mean the market has been too severe selling down. That can happen.
The image below shows how earnings and revenue have tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).
Balance sheet strength is crucial. It might be well worthwhile taking a look at our free report on how its financial position has changed over time.
A Different Perspective
Investors in McCoy Global had a tough year, with a total loss of 63%, against a market gain of about 0.2%. Even the share prices of good stocks drop sometimes, but we want to see improvements in the fundamental metrics of a business, before getting too interested. Unfortunately, last year's performance may indicate unresolved challenges, given that it was worse than the annualised loss of 39% over the last half decade. We realise that Buffett has said investors should 'buy when there is blood on the streets', but we caution that investors should first be sure they are buying a high quality businesses. If you would like to research McCoy Global in more detail then you might want to take a look at whether insiders have been buying or selling shares in the company.
We will like McCoy Global 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 CA exchanges.
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