The main aim of stock picking is to find the market-beating stocks. But even the best stock picker will only win with some selections. At this point some shareholders may be questioning their investment in Shandong Hongchuang Aluminum Industry Holding Company Limited (SZSE:002379), since the last five years saw the share price fall 40%. The last week also saw the share price slip down another 8.6%.

Given the past week has been tough on shareholders, let's investigate the fundamentals and see what we can learn.

Check out our latest analysis for Shandong Hongchuang Aluminum Industry Holding

While the efficient markets hypothesis continues to be taught by some, it has been proven that markets are over-reactive dynamic systems, and investors are not always rational. One imperfect but simple way to consider how the market perception of a company has shifted is to compare the change in the earnings per share (EPS) with the share price movement.

Shandong Hongchuang Aluminum Industry Holding became profitable within the last five years. That would generally be considered a positive, so we are surprised to see the share price is down. Other metrics might give us a better handle on how its value is changing over time.

Revenue is actually up 20% over the time period. So it seems one might have to take closer look at the fundamentals to understand why the share price languishes. After all, there may be an opportunity.

You can see how earnings and revenue have changed over time in the image below (click on the chart to see the exact values).

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

A Different Perspective

It's nice to see that Shandong Hongchuang Aluminum Industry Holding shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 29% over the last year. Notably the five-year annualised TSR loss of 7% per year compares very unfavourably with the recent share price performance. The long term loss makes us cautious, but the short term TSR gain certainly hints at a brighter future. While it is well worth considering the different impacts that market conditions can have on the share price, there are other factors that are even more important. To that end, you should learn about the 3 warning signs we've spotted with Shandong Hongchuang Aluminum Industry Holding (including 2 which are significant) .

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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 CN exchanges.

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