Published on 19 Mar 2024 on Simply Wall St. · via Yahoo Finance
For many investors, the main point of stock picking is to generate higher returns than the overall market. But if you try your hand at stock picking, your risk returning less than the market. Unfortunately, that's been the case for longer term National Research Corporation (NASDAQ:NRC) shareholders, since the share price is down 11% in the last three years, falling well short of the market return of around 27%.
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.