How Do Analysts See Verisk Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSK) Performing Over The Next Few Years?
Verisk Analytics, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:VRSK) released its most recent earnings update in December 2018, which suggested that the company experienced a small tailwind, leading to a single-digit earnings growth of 7.9%. Below is a brief commentary on my key takeaways on how market analysts perceive Verisk Analytics's earnings growth trajectory over the next few 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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Market analysts' prospects for next year seems rather subdued, with earnings increasing by a single digit 5.3%. The growth outlook in the following year seems much more positive with rates generating double digit 18% compared to today’s earnings, and finally hitting US$747m by 2022.
While it is informative knowing the rate of growth year by year relative to today’s figure, it may be more insightful to determine the rate at which the earnings are rising or falling every year, on average. The advantage of this technique is that we can get a better picture of the direction of Verisk Analytics'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've inserted a line of best fit through the forecasted earnings by market analysts. The slope of this line is the rate of earnings growth, which in this case is 7.8%. This means, we can presume Verisk Analytics will grow its earnings by 7.8% every year for the next couple of years.
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