Published on 16 May 2021 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
Can You Imagine How Jubilant Abcam's (LON:ABC) Shareholders Feel About Its 164% Share Price Gain?
The worst result, after buying shares in a company (assuming no leverage), would be if you lose all the money you put in. But on the bright side, you can make far more than 100% on a really good stock. For example, the Abcam plc (LON:ABC) share price has soared 164% in the last half decade. Most would be very happy with that. Also pleasing for shareholders was the 11% gain in the last three months. But this could be related to the strong market, which is up 18% in the last three months.
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To paraphrase Benjamin Graham: Over the short term the market is a voting machine, but over the long term it's a weighing machine. One way to examine how market sentiment has changed over time is to look at the interaction between a company's share price and its earnings per share (EPS).