Yahoo Finance What Do Analysts Think About FAR Limited's (ASX:FAR) Long Term Outlook?
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The latest earnings release FAR Limited's (ASX:FAR) announced in December 2018 revealed company earnings became less negative compared to the previous year's level as a result of recent tailwinds Today I want to provide a brief commentary on how market analysts predict FAR's earnings growth trajectory over the next couple of years and whether the future looks brighter. I will be looking at earnings excluding extraordinary items to exclude one-off activities to get a better understanding of the underlying drivers of earnings.
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Analysts' expectations for this coming year seems pessimistic, with earnings becoming even more negative, generating -AU$15.3m in 2020. However, earnings should move into an upward trajectory, reaching -AU$17.5m in 2021, before plateauing down to -AU$12.0m in 2022.
While it is helpful to be aware of the rate of growth year by year relative to today’s value, it may be more beneficial analyzing the rate at which the earnings are growing on average every year. The benefit of this approach is that we can get a better picture of the direction of FAR's earnings trajectory over the long run, irrespective of near term fluctuations, be more volatile. To compute this rate, I put a line of best fit through the forecasted earnings by market analysts. The slope of this line is the rate of earnings growth, which in this case is -4.1%. This means, we can anticipate FAR will chip away at a rate of -4.1% every year for the next few years.
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