Buying shares in the best businesses can build meaningful wealth for you and your family. While the best companies are hard to find, but they can generate massive returns over long periods. To wit, the SPS Commerce, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPSC) share price has soared 343% over five years. This just goes to show the value creation that some businesses can achieve. In more good news, the share price has risen 12% in thirty days. This could be related to the recent financial results that were recently released - you could check the most recent data by reading our company report.

Since it's been a strong week for SPS Commerce shareholders, let's have a look at trend of the longer term fundamentals.

Check out our latest analysis for SPS Commerce

While markets are a powerful pricing mechanism, share prices reflect investor sentiment, not just underlying business performance. 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.

Over half a decade, SPS Commerce managed to grow its earnings per share at 43% a year. The EPS growth is more impressive than the yearly share price gain of 35% over the same period. So one could conclude that the broader market has become more cautious towards the stock. Of course, with a P/E ratio of 109.05, the market remains optimistic.

The graphic below depicts how EPS has changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).

We know that SPS Commerce has improved its bottom line lately, but is it going to grow revenue? If you're interested, you could check this free report showing consensus revenue forecasts.

A Different Perspective

We're pleased to report that SPS Commerce shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 38% over one year. That gain is better than the annual TSR over five years, which is 35%. Therefore it seems like sentiment around the company has been positive lately. In the best case scenario, this may hint at some real business momentum, implying that now could be a great time to delve deeper. If you would like to research SPS Commerce in more detail then you might want to take a look at whether insiders have been buying or selling shares in the company.

If you like to buy stocks alongside management, then you might just love this free list of companies. (Hint: insiders have been buying them).

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

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