Long term investing is the way to go, but that doesn’t mean you should hold every stock forever. We don’t wish catastrophic capital loss on anyone. For example, we sympathize with anyone who was caught holding DarioHealth Corp. (NASDAQ:DRIO) during the five years that saw its share price drop a whopping 90%. And it’s not just long term holders hurting, because the stock is down 46% in the last year.
While a drop like that is definitely a body blow, money isn’t as important as health and happiness.
Check out our latest analysis for DarioHealth
Given that DarioHealth didn’t make a profit in the last twelve months, we’ll focus on revenue growth to form a quick view of its business development. When a company doesn’t make profits, we’d generally expect to see good revenue growth. As you can imagine, fast revenue growth, when maintained, often leads to fast profit growth.
In the last half decade, DarioHealth saw its revenue increase by 50% per year. That’s better than most loss-making companies. So on the face of it we’re really surprised to see the share price has averaged a fall of 37% each year, in the same time period. It could be that the stock was over-hyped before. While there might be an opportunity here, you’d want to take a close look at the balance sheet strength.
The graphic below depicts how earnings and revenue have changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).
NasdaqCM:DRIO Income Statement, March 4th 2020
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A Different Perspective
Investors in DarioHealth had a tough year, with a total loss of 46%, against a market gain of about 9.1%. Even the share prices of good stocks drop sometimes, but we want to see improvements in the fundamental metrics of a business, before getting too interested. Regrettably, last year’s performance caps off a bad run, with the shareholders facing a total loss of 37% per year over five years. Generally speaking long term share price weakness can be a bad sign, though contrarian investors might want to research the stock in hope of a turnaround. It’s always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand DarioHealth better, we need to consider many other factors. Even so, be aware that DarioHealth is showing 5 warning signs in our investment analysis , and 2 of those are significant…
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