The Sino-Entertainment Technology Holdings Limited (HKG:6933) share price has had a bad week, falling 22%. Despite this, the stock is a strong performer over the last year, no doubt about that. During that period, the share price soared a full 184%. So it is important to view the recent reduction in price through that lense. More important, going forward, is how the business itself is going.

While the stock has fallen 22% this week, it's worth focusing on the longer term and seeing if the stocks historical returns have been driven by the underlying fundamentals.

See our latest analysis for Sino-Entertainment Technology Holdings

To paraphrase Benjamin Graham: Over the short term the market is a voting machine, but over the long term it's a weighing machine. 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 the last year Sino-Entertainment Technology Holdings saw its earnings per share (EPS) drop below zero. While this may prove temporary, we'd consider it a negative, so we would not have expected to see the share price up. It may be that the company has done well on other metrics.

Unfortunately Sino-Entertainment Technology Holdings' fell 57% over twelve months. So the fundamental metrics don't provide an obvious explanation for the share price gain.

The graphic below depicts how earnings and revenue have changed over time (unveil the exact values by clicking on the image).

Take a more thorough look at Sino-Entertainment Technology Holdings' financial health with this free report on its balance sheet.

A Different Perspective

Sino-Entertainment Technology Holdings boasts a total shareholder return of 184% for the last year. We regret to report that the share price is down 6.4% over ninety days. Shorter term share price moves often don't signify much about the business itself. I find it very interesting to look at share price over the long term as a proxy for business performance. But to truly gain insight, we need to consider other information, too. To that end, you should learn about the 3 warning signs we've spotted with Sino-Entertainment Technology Holdings (including 1 which is significant) .

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

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