Long term investing can be life changing when you buy and hold the truly great businesses. And highest quality companies can see their share prices grow by huge amounts. To wit, the SiTime Corporation (NASDAQ:SITM) share price has soared 658% over five years. And this is just one example of the epic gains achieved by some long term investors. In more good news, the share price has risen 46% in thirty days. This could be related to the recent financial results that were recently released - you could check the most recent data by reading our company report. Anyone who held for that rewarding ride would probably be keen to talk about it.

On the back of a solid 7-day performance, let's check what role the company's fundamentals have played in driving long term shareholder returns.

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Given that SiTime didn't make a profit in the last twelve months, we'll focus on revenue growth to form a quick view of its business development. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally hope to see good revenue growth. That's because it's hard to be confident a company will be sustainable if revenue growth is negligible, and it never makes a profit.

For the last half decade, SiTime can boast revenue growth at a rate of 8.6% per year. That's a pretty good long term growth rate. However, the share price gain of 50% during the period is considerably stronger. We usually like strong growth stocks but it does seem the market already appreciates this one quite well!

The company's revenue and earnings (over time) are depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).NasdaqGM:SITM Earnings and Revenue Growth May 11th 2025

Take a more thorough look at SiTime's financial health with this freereport on its balance sheet.

A Different Perspective

It's nice to see that SiTime shareholders have received a total shareholder return of 54% over the last year. Since the one-year TSR is better than the five-year TSR (the latter coming in at 50% per year), it would seem that the stock's performance has improved in recent times. In the best case scenario, this may hint at some real business momentum, implying that now could be a great time to delve deeper. 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  4 warning signs  we've spotted with SiTime (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 American exchanges.

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