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What Should We Expect From Public Joint-Stock Company Mobile TeleSystems’s (MBT) Earnings Over The Next Year?

Based on Public Joint-Stock Company Mobile TeleSystems’s (NYSE:MBT) earnings update in September 2017, analysts seem cautiously optimistic, with profits predicted to increase by 5.93% next year against the past 5-year average growth rate of 4.23%. Currently with earnings of RUB52,495.0M, we can expect this to reach RUB55,606.9M by 2018. In this article, I’ve outline a few earnings growth rates to give you a sense of the market sentiment for MBT in the longer term. For those interested in more of an analysis of Public Joint-Stock Company Mobile TeleSystems, you can research its fundamentals here. View our latest analysis for Public Joint-Stock Company Mobile TeleSystems

How is MBT going to perform in the near future?

The longer term expectations from the 16 analysts of MBT is tilted towards the positive sentiment. Given that it becomes hard to forecast far into the future, broker analysts tend to project ahead roughly three years. To get an idea of the overall earnings growth trend for MBT, I’ve plotted out each year’s earnings expectations and inserted a line of best fit to determine an annual rate of growth from the slope of this line.

NYSE:MBT Future Profit Dec 12th 17
NYSE:MBT Future Profit Dec 12th 17

By 2020, MBT’s earnings should reach RUB60,081.6M, from current levels of RUB52,495.0M, resulting in an annual growth rate of 4.67%. This results in an EPS of RUB66.62 in the final year of forecast compared to the current RUB52.78 EPS today. Growth in the bottom line seems to suggest cost cutting activities, as revenues is expected to grow much slower than earnings. In 2020, MBT’s profit margin will have expanded from 12.05% to 13.17%.

Next Steps:

Future outlook is only one aspect when you’re building an investment case for a stock. For Public Joint-Stock Company Mobile TeleSystems, there are three key factors you should further examine:

1. 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.

2. Valuation: What is MBT 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 MBT is currently mispriced by the market.

3. Other High-Growth Alternatives : Are there other high-growth stocks you could be holding instead of MBT? 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 pass 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.

The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned.

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