Published on 16 Sep 2023 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
By buying an index fund, you can roughly match the market return with ease. But if you buy good businesses at attractive prices, your portfolio returns could exceed the average market return. For example, the SouthState Corporation (NASDAQ:SSB) share price is up 36% in the last three years, clearly besting the market return of around 26% (not including dividends).
With that in mind, it's worth seeing if the company's underlying fundamentals have been the driver of long term performance, or if there are some discrepancies.
See our latest analysis for SouthState