Xinyuan Real Estate: The Impact Of The Accounting Change

Summary:

- Xinyuan reported noisy Q1 2018 financial results that were impacted by a new accounting change.

- The noise for the quarter is simply based on a timing issue, at least for the time being.

- I plan to stay long Xinyuan. How about you?

Xinyuan Real Estate's ($XIN) stock has not performed well so far in 2018, as XIN shares are down over 30% while the S&P 500 is up slightly over 3%.

What has caused this significant underperformance over the last six plus months? Several things but, more recently, investors were left wanting more after the company reported 'noisy' Q1 2018 financial results and followed that up by announcing that Helen Zhang, CFO, was resigning from her position.