Published on 6 May 2021 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance

Biffa's (LON:BIFF) Shareholders Are Down 12% On Their Shares

It's easy to match the overall market return by buying an index fund. While individual stocks can be big winners, plenty more fail to generate satisfactory returns. That downside risk was realized by Biffa plc (LON:BIFF) shareholders over the last year, as the share price declined 12%. That falls noticeably short of the market decline of around 3.3%. At least the damage isn't so bad if you look at the last three years, since the stock is down 6.6% in that time.

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Biffa isn't currently profitable, so most analysts would look to revenue growth to get an idea of how fast the underlying business is growing. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally expect to see good revenue growth. That's because it's hard to be confident a company will be sustainable if revenue growth is negligible, and it never makes a profit.