Published on 25 Dec 2022 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance

Investors in Pliant Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PLRX) have made a return of 19% over the past year

These days it's easy to simply buy an index fund, and your returns should (roughly) match the market. But if you pick the right individual stocks, you could make more than that. For example, the Pliant Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLRX) share price is up 19% in the last 1 year, clearly besting the market decline of around 23% (not including dividends). If it can keep that out-performance up over the long term, investors will do very well! Note that businesses generally develop over the long term, so the returns over the last year might not reflect a long term trend.

So let's investigate and see if the longer term performance of the company has been in line with the underlying business' progress.

Check out our latest analysis for Pliant Therapeutics