Perhaps if investment in the core business had increased by 40% it would be happening over the next 5 years?

But that's not how companies work nowadays, high payoffs for the circle of execs who ramp up share price in the short term, and professional gamblers who buy the shares, selling a few months, days, microseconds later, and hoping not to be left with them when the inevitable rot sets in (but when it does rely on a government do-over)