Yahoo Finance Will Super Retail Group Limited's (ASX:SUL) Earnings Grow Over The Next Year?
In December 2018, Super Retail Group Limited (ASX:SUL) announced its earnings update. Overall, the consensus outlook from analysts appear fairly confident, with earnings expected to grow by 14% in the upcoming year compared with the past 5-year average growth rate of 3.2%. Currently with trailing-twelve-month earnings of AU$128m, we can expect this to reach AU$146m by 2020. I will provide a brief commentary around the figures and analyst expectations in the near term. For those interested in more of an analysis of the company, you can research its fundamentals here.
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Can we expect Super Retail Group to keep growing?
The longer term view from the 12 analysts covering SUL is one of positive sentiment. Broker analysts tend to forecast up to three years ahead due to a lack of clarity around the business trajectory beyond this. 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.
From the current net income level of AU$128m and the final forecast of AU$166m by 2022, the annual rate of growth for SUL’s earnings is 8.5%. This leads to an EPS of A$0.83 in the final year of projections relative to the current EPS of A$0.65. Margins are currently sitting at 5.0%, which is expected to expand to 5.7% by 2022.
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