Announcing: Cara Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CARA) Stock Increased An Energizing 193% In The Last Three Years

Simply Wall St - finance.yahoo.com Posted 5 years ago
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The most you can lose on any stock (assuming you don't use leverage) is 100% of your money. But when you pick a company that is really flourishing, you can make more than 100%. To wit, the Cara Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CARA) share price has flown 193% in the last three years. How nice for those who held the stock! It's down 5.1% in the last seven days.

See our latest analysis for Cara Therapeutics

Cara Therapeutics isn't a profitable company, so it is unlikely we'll see a strong correlation between its share price and its earnings per share (EPS). Arguably revenue is our next best option. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally expect to see good revenue growth. As you can imagine, fast revenue growth, when maintained, often leads to fast profit growth.

Over the last three years Cara Therapeutics has grown its revenue at 99% annually. That's much better than most loss-making companies. Meanwhile, the share price performance has been pretty solid at 43% compound over three years. This suggests the market has recognized the progress the business has made, at least to a significant degree. Nonetheless, we'd say Cara Therapeutics is still worth investigating - successful businesses can often keep growing for long periods.

You can see how revenue and earnings have changed over time in the image below, (click on the chart to see cashflow).

NasdaqGM:CARA Income Statement, May 29th 2019
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You can see how its balance sheet has strengthened (or weakened) over time in this free interactive graphic.

A Different Perspective

We're pleased to report that Cara Therapeutics shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 14% over one year. That gain is better than the annual TSR over five years, which is 5.7%. Therefore it seems like sentiment around the company has been positive lately. Someone with an optimistic perspective could view the recent improvement in TSR as indicating that the business itself is getting better with time. Shareholders might want to examine this detailed historical graph of past earnings, revenue and cash flow.

We will like Cara Therapeutics better if we see some big insider buys. While we wait, check out this free list of growing companies with considerable, recent, insider buying.

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

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