What Should We Expect From Boyd Gaming Corporation's (NYSE:BYD) Earnings In The Years Ahead?
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In December 2018, Boyd Gaming Corporation (NYSE:BYD) released its latest earnings announcement, which suggested that the company endured a major headwind with earnings falling by -32%. Today I want to provide a brief commentary on how market analysts predict Boyd Gaming's earnings growth trajectory over the next few years and whether the future looks brighter. I will be looking at earnings excluding extraordinary items to exclude one-off activities to get a better understanding of the underlying drivers of earnings.
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Analysts' expectations for this coming year seems buoyant, with earnings increasing by a significant 60%. This high growth in earnings is expected to continue, bringing the bottom line up to US$237m by 2022.
While it is informative understanding the rate of growth year by year relative to today’s value, it may be more beneficial analyzing the rate at which the business is growing every year, on average. The benefit of this approach is that we can get a bigger picture of the direction of Boyd Gaming'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 appended 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 24%. This means that, we can anticipate Boyd Gaming will grow its earnings by 24% every year for the next couple of years.
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