Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) Jumps 11% This Week, Though Earnings Growth Is Still Tracking Behind One-year Shareholder Returns
Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) Jumps 11% This Week, Though Earnings Growth Is Still Tracking Behind One-year Shareholder Returns
The simplest way to invest in stocks is to buy exchange traded funds. But if you pick the right individual stocks, you could make more than that. For example, the Business First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:BFST) share price is up 51% in the last 1 year, clearly besting the market return of around 22% (not including dividends). So that should have shareholders smiling. On the other hand, longer term shareholders have had a tougher run, with the stock falling 0.7% in three years.
投資股票的最簡單方法是購買交易所交易基金。但是,如果你選擇正確的個股,你可能會賺得比這還多。例如,Business First Bancshares, Inc. (納斯達克:BFST) 的股價在過去1年中上漲了51%,明顯超過了市場回報率約22%(不包括分紅)。因此,股東們應該會感到高興。另一方面,持有較長時間的股東們則遭遇了更艱難的局面,股票在三年內下跌了0.7%。
After a strong gain in the past week, it's worth seeing if longer term returns have been driven by improving fundamentals.
在過去的一週之內,獲得的強勁收益是否表明了長期回報受到基本面的推動值得關注。
While markets are a powerful pricing mechanism, share prices reflect investor sentiment, not just underlying business performance. 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.
雖然市場是一個強大的定價機制,但股價反映的不僅僅是企業的基本業績,還有投資者的情緒。一個不完美但簡單的方式來考慮公司市場意識的變化是比較每股收益(EPS)的變化和股價的變化。
Business First Bancshares was able to grow EPS by 4.4% in the last twelve months. The share price gain of 51% certainly outpaced the EPS growth. So it's fair to assume the market has a higher opinion of the business than it a year ago.
Business First Bancshares在過去12個月中EPS增長了4.4%。而此時的股價上漲了51%,顯然超過了EPS的增長。因此,可以合理地認爲市場對這家企業的看法比一年前更高。
The image below shows how EPS has tracked over time (if you click on the image you can see greater detail).
下圖顯示了EPS隨時間的變化情況(如果您單擊該圖像,則可以查看更多詳細信息)。
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It might be well worthwhile taking a look at our free report on Business First Bancshares' earnings, revenue and cash flow.
查看我們關於Business First Bancshares收益、營業收入和現金流的免費報告是非常值得的。
What About Dividends?
那麼分紅怎麼樣呢?
As well as measuring the share price return, investors should also consider the total shareholder return (TSR). The TSR incorporates the value of any spin-offs or discounted capital raisings, along with any dividends, based on the assumption that the dividends are reinvested. Arguably, the TSR gives a more comprehensive picture of the return generated by a stock. We note that for Business First Bancshares the TSR over the last 1 year was 55%, which is better than the share price return mentioned above. This is largely a result of its dividend payments!
除了衡量股價回報,投資者也應該考慮總股東回報(TSR)。TSR包括任何分拆或打折資本募集的價值,以及任何股息,基於股息再投資的假設。可以說,TSR給出了更全面的股票回報圖像。值得注意的是,對於Business First Bancshares來說,過去一年的TSR爲55%,優於上面提到的股價回報。這在很大程度上是其分紅派息的結果!
A Different Perspective
不同的觀點
It's nice to see that Business First Bancshares shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 55% over the last year. That's including the dividend. Since the one-year TSR is better than the five-year TSR (the latter coming in at 0.2% per year), it would seem that the stock's performance has improved in recent times. 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 Business First Bancshares better, we need to consider many other factors. Even so, be aware that Business First Bancshares is showing 1 warning sign in our investment analysis , you should know about...
很高興看到業務第一銀行股東去年獲得了55%的總股東回報率,包括股息在內。由於一年的TSR優於五年的TSR(後者爲每年0.2%),因此似乎該股票的表現在近期有所提高。有樂觀態度的人可以將TSR的最近改善視爲業務本身隨着時間的推移變得更好的跡象。長期跟蹤股價表現總是很有趣的。但要更好地了解業務第一銀行,我們需要考慮許多其他因素。即便如此,請注意業務第一銀行在我們的投資分析中顯示了1個警告信號,您應該知道……
Of course Business First Bancshares may not be the best stock to buy. So you may wish to see this free collection of growth stocks.
當然,Business First Bancshares可能不是最好的股票買入選擇。因此,你可能希望查看這些成長股的免費收集。
Please note, the market returns quoted in this article reflect the market weighted average returns of stocks that currently trade on American exchanges.
請注意,本文所引述的市場回報反映了目前在美國交易所上市的股票的市場加權平均回報。
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