Yahoo Finance How Do Analysts See Monadelphous Group Limited (ASX:MND) Performing In The Year Ahead?
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In December 2018, Monadelphous Group Limited (ASX:MND) announced its earnings update. Overall, it seems that analyst forecasts are fairly optimistic, with profits predicted to increase by 7.1% next year against the past 5-year average growth rate of -22%. Presently, with latest-twelve-month earnings at AU$71m, we should see this growing to AU$77m by 2020. Below is a brief commentary around Monadelphous Group'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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Can we expect Monadelphous Group to keep growing?
Over the next three years, it seems the consensus view of the 12 analysts covering MND is skewed 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 MND, 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.
From the current net income level of AU$71m and the final forecast of AU$101m by 2022, the annual rate of growth for MND’s earnings is 13%. This leads to an EPS of A$0.99 in the final year of projections relative to the current EPS of A$0.76. With a current profit margin of 4.1%, this movement will result in a margin of 4.7% by 2022.
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