Even after rising 8.6% this past week, TeamViewer (ETR:TMV) shareholders are still down 52% over the past three years

TeamViewer AG (ETR:TMV) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 28% in the last month. Meanwhile over the last three years the stock has dropped hard. In that time, the share price dropped 52%. Some might say the recent bounce is to be expected after such a bad drop. After all, could be that the fall was overdone.

While the last three years has been tough for TeamViewer shareholders, this past week has shown signs of promise. So let's look at the longer term fundamentals and see if they've been the driver of the negative returns.

See our latest analysis for TeamViewer

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.

A Different Perspective

TeamViewer shareholders may not have made money over the last year, but their total loss of 1.6% isn't as bad as the market loss of around 1.6%. The one-year return is also not as bad as the 15% per annum loss investors have suffered over the last three years. It could well be that the business has begun to stabilize, though the recent returns are hardly impressive. While it is well worth considering the different impacts that market conditions can have on the share price, there are other factors that are even more important. For instance, we've identified 2 warning signs for TeamViewer that you should be aware of.

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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 DE exchanges.

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