Published on 22 Mar 2024 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
If you buy and hold a stock for many years, you'd hope to be making a profit. Better yet, you'd like to see the share price move up more than the market average. Unfortunately for shareholders, while the Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (NYSE:LH) share price is up 40% in the last five years, that's less than the market return. Zooming in, the stock is actually down 1.6% in the last year.
So let's assess the underlying fundamentals over the last 5 years and see if they've moved in lock-step with shareholder returns.
Check out our latest analysis for Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings