Published on 11 Dec 2023 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
Whitbread's (LON:WTB) 31% return outpaced the company's earnings growth over the same one-year...
The simplest way to invest in stocks is to buy exchange traded funds. But investors can boost returns by picking market-beating companies to own shares in. For example, the Whitbread plc (LON:WTB) share price is up 28% in the last 1 year, clearly besting the market decline of around 2.4% (not including dividends). If it can keep that out-performance up over the long term, investors will do very well! The longer term returns have not been as good, with the stock price only 7.7% higher than it was three years ago.
The past week has proven to be lucrative for Whitbread investors, so let's see if fundamentals drove the company's one-year performance.
See our latest analysis for Whitbread