As an investor its worth striving to ensure your overall portfolio beats the market average. 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 Founder Technology Group Co.,Ltd. (SHSE:600601) shareholders, since the share price is down 29% in the last three years, falling well short of the market decline of around 16%. Even worse, it's down 9.1% in about a month, which isn't fun at all. But this could be related to poor market conditions -- stocks are down 5.2% in the same time.

Given the past week has been tough on shareholders, let's investigate the fundamentals and see what we can learn.

Check out our latest analysis for Founder Technology GroupLtd

In his essay The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville Warren Buffett described how share prices do not always rationally reflect the value of a business. One way to examine how market sentiment has changed over time is to look at the interaction between a company's share price and its earnings per share (EPS).

Founder Technology GroupLtd became profitable within the last five years. We would usually expect to see the share price rise as a result. So it's worth looking at other metrics to try to understand the share price move.

Arguably the revenue decline of 13% per year has people thinking Founder Technology GroupLtd is shrinking. And that's not surprising, since it seems unlikely that EPS growth can continue for long in the absence of revenue growth.

You can see how earnings and revenue have changed over time in the image below (click on the chart to see the exact values).

This free interactive report on Founder Technology GroupLtd's balance sheet strength is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.

A Different Perspective

It's good to see that Founder Technology GroupLtd has rewarded shareholders with a total shareholder return of 4.5% in the last twelve months. Since the one-year TSR is better than the five-year TSR (the latter coming in at 2% per year), it would seem that the stock's performance has improved in recent times. In the best case scenario, this may hint at some real business momentum, implying that now could be a great time to delve deeper. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Founder Technology GroupLtd better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should learn about the 2 warning signs we've spotted with Founder Technology GroupLtd (including 1 which is a bit unpleasant) .

We will like Founder Technology GroupLtd better if we see some big insider buys. While we wait, check out this free list of growing companies with considerable, recent, insider buying.

Please note, the market returns quoted in this article reflect the market weighted average returns of stocks that currently trade on Chinese exchanges.

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