Yahoo Finance Lundin Mining (TSE:LUN) rises 6.0% this week, taking five-year gains to 100%
Lundin Mining Corporation (TSE:LUN) shareholders might be concerned after seeing the share price drop 16% in the last quarter. Looking further back, the stock has generated good profits over five years. After all, the share price is up a market-beating 81% in that time.
Since it's been a strong week for Lundin Mining shareholders, let's have a look at trend of the longer term fundamentals.
See our latest analysis for Lundin Mining
In his essay The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville Warren Buffett described how share prices do not always rationally reflect the value of a business. One flawed but reasonable way to assess how sentiment around a company has changed is to compare the earnings per share (EPS) with the share price.
During the last half decade, Lundin Mining became profitable. That's generally thought to be a genuine positive, so we would expect to see an increasing share price. Since the company was unprofitable five years ago, but not three years ago, it's worth taking a look at the returns in the last three years, too. We can see that the Lundin Mining share price is up 38% in the last three years. Meanwhile, EPS is up 13% per year. This EPS growth is reasonably close to the 11% average annual increase in the share price (over three years, again). That suggests that the market sentiment around the company hasn't changed much over that time. Rather, the share price has approximately tracked EPS growth.
The company's earnings per share (over time) is depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).
We consider it positive that insiders have made significant purchases in the last year. Even so, future earnings will be far more important to whether current shareholders make money. Dive deeper into the earnings by checking this interactive graph of Lundin Mining's earnings, revenue and cash flow.
What About Dividends?
As well as measuring the share price return, investors should also consider the total shareholder return (TSR). The TSR is a return calculation that accounts for the value of cash dividends (assuming that any dividend received was reinvested) and the calculated value of any discounted capital raisings and spin-offs. Arguably, the TSR gives a more comprehensive picture of the return generated by a stock. As it happens, Lundin Mining's TSR for the last 5 years was 100%, which exceeds the share price return mentioned earlier. The dividends paid by the company have thusly boosted the total shareholder return.
A Different Perspective
Lundin Mining shareholders have received returns of 34% over twelve months (even including dividends), which isn't far from the general market return. Most would be happy with a gain, and it helps that the year's return is actually better than the average return over five years, which was 15%. Even if the share price growth slows down from here, there's a good chance that this is business worth watching in the long term. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Lundin Mining better, we need to consider many other factors. For example, we've discovered 4 warning signs for Lundin Mining (1 shouldn't be ignored!) that you should be aware of before investing here.
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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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