Published on 16 Nov 2023 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance

FutureFuel (NYSE:FF) investors are sitting on a loss of 39% if they invested five years ago

In order to justify the effort of selecting individual stocks, it's worth striving to beat the returns from a market index fund. But the main game is to find enough winners to more than offset the losers So we wouldn't blame long term FutureFuel Corp. (NYSE:FF) shareholders for doubting their decision to hold, with the stock down 66% over a half decade. And some of the more recent buyers are probably worried, too, with the stock falling 25% in the last year. Furthermore, it's down 16% in about a quarter. That's not much fun for holders. We note that the company has reported results fairly recently; and the market is hardly delighted. You can check out the latest numbers in our company report.

Since shareholders are down over the longer term, lets look at the underlying fundamentals over the that time and see if they've been consistent with returns.

Check out our latest analysis for FutureFuel