What Are Analysts Saying About Eutelsat Communications SA’s (EPA:ETL) Future?
The most recent earnings release Eutelsat Communications SA’s (EPA:ETL) announced in June 2018 showed that the company experienced a significant headwind with earnings deteriorating by -18%. Below, I’ve presented key growth figures on how market analysts view Eutelsat Communications’s earnings growth trajectory over the next couple of years and whether the future looks brighter. 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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Analysts’ outlook for next year seems rather subdued, with earnings expanding by a single digit 2.8%. The following year doesn’t look much more exciting, though earnings does reach €344m in 2021.
While it’s informative knowing the growth year by year relative to today’s figure, it may be more beneficial evaluating the rate at which the company is moving every year, on average. The advantage of this technique is that it ignores near term flucuations and accounts for the overarching direction of Eutelsat Communications’s earnings trajectory over time, which may be more relevant for long term investors. To compute 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 6.5%. This means that, we can anticipate Eutelsat Communications will grow its earnings by 6.5% every year for the next few years.
Next Steps:
For Eutelsat Communications, I’ve put together three important factors you should further research:
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 ETL 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 ETL is currently mispriced by the market.
Other High-Growth Alternatives: Are there other high-growth stocks you could be holding instead of ETL? Explore our interactive list of stocks with large growth potential to get an idea of what else is out there you may be missing!
To help readers see past the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements.
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