Published on 24 May 2024 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
In order to justify the effort of selecting individual stocks, it's worth striving to beat the returns from a market index fund. But in any portfolio, there are likely to be some stocks that fall short of that benchmark. Unfortunately, that's been the case for longer term Schroders plc (LON:SDR) shareholders, since the share price is down 36% in the last three years, falling well short of the market return of around 20%.
Now let's have a look at the company's fundamentals, and see if the long term shareholder return has matched the performance of the underlying business.