Yahoo Finance What Should Investors Know About Codan Limited's (ASX:CDA) Earnings Trajectory?
In August 2019, Codan Limited (ASX:CDA) announced its most recent earnings update, which suggested that the company gained from a small tailwind, leading to a single-digit earnings growth of 9.8%. Below, I've presented key growth figures on how market analysts view Codan's earnings growth outlook over the next few years and whether the future looks even brighter than the past. Note that I will be looking at net income excluding extraordinary items to get a better understanding of the underlying drivers of earnings.
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Market analysts' consensus outlook for the upcoming year seems rather subdued, with earnings growing by a single digit 7.0%. The growth outlook in the following year seems much more buoyant with rates reaching double digit 18% compared to today’s earnings, and finally hitting AU$61m by 2022.
Even though it is informative knowing the rate of growth year by year relative to today’s value, it may be more insightful estimating the rate at which the company is moving every year, on average. The advantage of this approach is that it removes the impact of near term flucuations and accounts for the overarching direction of Codan's earnings trajectory over time, which may be more relevant for long term investors. To compute this rate, I've inserted a line of best fit through analyst consensus of forecasted earnings. The slope of this line is the rate of earnings growth, which in this case is 9.2%. This means, we can presume Codan will grow its earnings by 9.2% every year for the next few years.
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For Codan, I've compiled three essential factors you should look at:
Valuation: What is CDA worth today? Is the stock undervalued, even when its growth outlook is factored into its intrinsic value? The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether CDA is currently mispriced by the market.
Future Earnings: How does CDA's growth rate compare to its peers and the wider market? Dig deeper into the analyst consensus number for the upcoming years by interacting with our free analyst growth expectation chart.
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