Yahoo Finance Will Shutterstock, Inc.'s (NYSE:SSTK) Earnings Grow In The Years Ahead?
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Shutterstock, Inc.'s (NYSE:SSTK) released its most recent earnings update in December 2018, which suggested that the company gained from a major tailwind, more than doubling its earnings from the prior year. Below, I've laid out key growth figures on how market analysts view Shutterstock's earnings growth trajectory over the next couple of years and whether the future looks even brighter than the past. I will be using net income excluding extraordinary items in order to exclude one-off volatility which I am not interested in.
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Analysts' expectations for next year seems pessimistic, with earnings decreasing by a double-digit -36%. In the next couple of years, earnings are expected to continue to be below today's level, with a decline of -17% in 2021, eventually reaching US$45m in 2022.
While it is informative knowing the growth rate each year relative to today’s figure, it may be more insightful to determine the rate at which the earnings are growing on average every year. The benefit of this approach is that we can get a bigger picture of the direction of Shutterstock's earnings trajectory over the long run, irrespective of near term fluctuations, which may be more relevant for long term investors. To calculate this rate, I put 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 11%. This means, we can assume Shutterstock will grow its earnings by 11% every year for the next few years.
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