Guangdong Huiyun Titanium Industry Co., Ltd. (SZSE:300891) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 14% in the last month. But that doesn't change the fact that the returns over the last year have been less than pleasing. After all, the share price is down 29% in the last year, significantly under-performing the market.

Given the past week has been tough on shareholders, let's investigate the fundamentals and see what we can learn.

Check out our latest analysis for Guangdong Huiyun Titanium Industry

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 compare the change in the earnings per share (EPS) with the share price movement.

Even though the Guangdong Huiyun Titanium Industry share price is down over the year, its EPS actually improved. Of course, the situation might betray previous over-optimism about growth.

The divergence between the EPS and the share price is quite notable, during the year. But we might find some different metrics explain the share price movements better.

Given the yield is quite low, at 0.8%, we doubt the dividend can shed much light on the share price. Guangdong Huiyun Titanium Industry managed to grow revenue over the last year, which is usually a real positive. Since we can't easily explain the share price movement based on these metrics, it might be worth considering how market sentiment has changed towards the stock.

You can see below how earnings and revenue have changed over time (discover the exact values by clicking on the image).

This free interactive report on Guangdong Huiyun Titanium Industry's balance sheet strength is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.

A Different Perspective

Guangdong Huiyun Titanium Industry shareholders are down 29% for the year (even including dividends), even worse than the market loss of 9.6%. There's no doubt that's a disappointment, but the stock may well have fared better in a stronger market. It's great to see a nice little 4.4% rebound in the last three months. This could just be a bounce because the selling was too aggressive, but fingers crossed it's the start of a new trend. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Guangdong Huiyun Titanium Industry better, we need to consider many other factors. To that end, you should learn about the 2 warning signs we've spotted with Guangdong Huiyun Titanium Industry (including 1 which makes us a bit uncomfortable) .

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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 CN exchanges.

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