Yahoo Finance James Hardie Industries plc (ASX:JHX): Is It A Smart Long Term Opportunity?
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In March 2019, James Hardie Industries plc (ASX:JHX) announced its earnings update. Overall, it seems that analyst forecasts are fairly optimistic, with profits predicted to increase by 47% next year against the past 5-year average growth rate of 8.0%. By 2020, we can expect James Hardie Industries’s bottom line to reach US$337m, a jump from the current trailing-twelve-month of US$229m. Below is a brief commentary on the longer term outlook the market has for James Hardie Industries. For those keen to understand more about other aspects of the company, you can research its fundamentals here.
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How is James Hardie Industries going to perform in the near future?
The longer term expectations from the 8 analysts of JHX is tilted towards the positive sentiment. Generally, broker analysts tend to make predictions for up to three years given the lack of visibility beyond this point. To reduce the year-on-year volatility of analyst earnings forecast, I've inserted a line of best fit through the expected earnings figures to determine the annual growth rate from the slope of the line.
This results in an annual growth rate of 18% based on the most recent earnings level of US$229m to the final forecast of US$412m by 2022. This leads to an EPS of $0.93 in the final year of projections relative to the current EPS of $0.52. Margins are currently sitting at 9.1%, which is expected to expand to 13% by 2022.
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Future outlook is only one aspect when you're building an investment case for a stock. For James Hardie Industries, I've put together three pertinent factors you should look at:
Financial Health: Does it have a healthy balance sheet? Take a look at our free balance sheet analysis with six simple checks on key factors like leverage and risk.
Valuation: What is James Hardie Industries 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 James Hardie Industries is currently mispriced by the market.
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