Shanghai Film Co., Ltd. (SHSE:601595) shareholders might understandably be very concerned that the share price has dropped 35% in the last quarter. But that doesn’t change the fact that the returns over the last three years have been pleasing. To wit, the share price did better than an index fund, climbing 64% during that period.
While this past week has detracted from the company’s three-year return, let’s look at the recent trends of the underlying business and see if the gains have been in alignment.
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While the efficient markets hypothesis continues to be taught by some, it has been proven that markets are over-reactive dynamic systems, and investors are not always rational. One flawed but reasonable way to assess how sentiment around a company has changed is to compare the earnings per share (EPS) with the share price.
During three years of share price growth, Shanghai…
