Yahoo Finance What Are Analysts Saying About Incitec Pivot Limited's (ASX:IPL) Future?
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Since Incitec Pivot Limited (ASX:IPL) released its earnings in March 2019, it seems that analyst forecasts are fairly optimistic, with profits predicted to increase by 28% next year relative to the past 5-year average growth rate of -9.1%. By 2020, we can expect Incitec Pivot’s bottom line to reach AU$267m, a jump from the current trailing-twelve-month of AU$208m. Below is a brief commentary around Incitec Pivot's earnings outlook going forward, which may give you a sense of market sentiment for the company. For those keen to understand more about other aspects of the company, you can research its fundamentals here.
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What can we expect from Incitec Pivot in the longer term?
The longer term expectations from the 11 analysts of IPL is tilted towards the positive sentiment. Since forecasting becomes more difficult further into the future, broker analysts generally project out to around three years. To get an idea of the overall earnings growth trend for IPL, I’ve plotted out each year’s earnings expectations and inserted a line of best fit to determine an annual rate of growth from the slope of this line.
By 2022, IPL's earnings should reach AU$399m, from current levels of AU$208m, resulting in an annual growth rate of 23%. EPS reaches A$0.29 in the final year of forecast compared to the current A$0.12 EPS today. With a current profit margin of 5.4%, this movement will result in a margin of 9.9% by 2022.
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