The main aim of stock picking is to find the market-beating stocks. But every investor is virtually certain to have both over-performing and under-performing stocks. At this point some shareholders may be questioning their investment in Global Net Lease, Inc. (NYSE:GNL), since the last five years saw the share price fall 52%.
On a more encouraging note the company has added US$56m to its market cap in just the last 7 days, so let’s see if we can determine what’s driven the five-year loss for shareholders.
Global Net Lease isn’t currently profitable, so most analysts would look to revenue growth to get an idea of how fast the underlying business is growing. Generally speaking, companies without profits are expected…


