What Should We Expect From Johnson Matthey Plc's (LON:JMAT) Earnings In The Next Couple Of Years?
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Johnson Matthey Plc's (LON:JMAT) most recent earnings update in June 2019 showed that the business gained from a strong tailwind, eventuating to a double-digit earnings growth of 39%. Below, I've presented key growth figures on how market analysts perceive Johnson Matthey's earnings growth outlook over the next few years and whether the future looks even brighter than the past. 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' outlook for the coming year seems rather muted, with earnings growing by a single digit 6.0%. The growth outlook in the following year seems much more positive with rates generating double digit 14% compared to today’s earnings, and finally hitting UK£509m by 2022.
Although it’s helpful to understand the growth rate each year relative to today’s level, it may be more beneficial to gauge the rate at which the business is growing on average every year. The pro of this approach is that it ignores near term flucuations and accounts for the overarching direction of Johnson Matthey's earnings trajectory over time, which may be more relevant for long term investors. To compute 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 7.4%. This means, we can anticipate Johnson Matthey will grow its earnings by 7.4% every year for the next few years.
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