It might be of some concern to shareholders to see the CarMax, Inc. (NYSE:KMX) share price down 21% in the last month. But the silver lining is the stock is up over five years. In that time, it is up 47%, which isn’t bad, but is below the market return of 167%. Unfortunately not all shareholders will have held it for five years, so spare a thought for those caught in the 32% decline over the last three years: that’s a long time to wait for profits.
Although CarMax has shed US$631m from its market cap this week, let’s take a look at its longer term fundamental trends and see if they’ve driven returns.
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To quote Buffett, ‘Ships will sail around the world but the Flat Earth Society will flourish. There will continue to be wide discrepancies between price and value in the marketplace…’ One imperfect but simple way to consider how the market perception of a company has shifted is to…
