Published on 31 May 2024 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
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. To wit, the British Land Company PLC (LON:BLND) share price is 21% higher than it was a year ago, much better than the market return of around 5.8% (not including dividends) in the same period. So that should have shareholders smiling. In contrast, the longer term returns are negative, since the share price is 16% lower than it was three years ago.
The past week has proven to be lucrative for British Land investors, so let's see if fundamentals drove the company's one-year performance.