SBI Cards shares hit 52-week low; what’s hurting the stock now

SBI Cards and Payment Services shares fell nearly two percent to a fresh 52-week low on Friday, adding to investors’ concerns as the stock entered the sixth session of losses in a row.
SBI Cards is due to report its financial results for the October-December period on January 24.
For the second quarter of the current financial year, SBI Cards and Payment Services reported a year-on-year rise of 67.3 percent in net profit to Rs 344.9 crore. Its revenue, however, declined 8.1 percent to Rs 1,173.2 crore.
The SBI Cards stock fell as much as 1.9 percent to Rs 845 on BSE, breaching its existing 52-week low of Rs 857.2, hit on Thursday.
Prior to Friday’s fall, SBI Cards shares had declined almost four percent in five back-to-back sessions.
Passive investing in an index fund is a good way to ensure your own returns roughly match the overall market. Active investors aim to buy stocks that vastly outperform the market – but in the process, they risk under-performance. Investors inย SBI Cards and Payment Services Limitedย (NSE:SBICARD) have tasted that bitter downside in the last year, as the share price dropped 13%. That falls noticeably short of the market return of around 36%. We wouldn’t rush to judgement on SBI Cards and Payment Services because we don’t have a long term history to look at. The share price has dropped 20% in three months.
Given that the market gained 36% in the last year, SBI Cards and Payment Services shareholders might be miffed that they lost 13%. While the aim is to do better than that, it’s worth recalling that even great long-term investments sometimes
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