Published on 21 Apr 2021 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance

A Look At Yancoal Australia's (ASX:YAL) Share Price Returns

As an investor its worth striving to ensure your overall portfolio beats the market average. But if you try your hand at stock picking, your risk returning less than the market. Unfortunately, that's been the case for longer term Yancoal Australia Ltd (ASX:YAL) shareholders, since the share price is down 52% in the last three years, falling well short of the market return of around 35%. It's down 1.3% in the last seven days.

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Given that Yancoal Australia 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. Shareholders of unprofitable companies usually expect strong revenue growth. That's because fast revenue growth can be easily extrapolated to forecast profits, often of considerable size.