FinecoBank Banca Fineco S.p.A. (BIT:FBK): What Does The Future Look Like?

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The most recent earnings announcement FinecoBank Banca Fineco S.p.A.’s (BIT:FBK) released in December 2018 suggested that the business gained from a robust tailwind, leading to a double-digit earnings growth of 13%. Below, I’ve presented key growth figures on how market analysts perceive FinecoBank Banca Fineco’s earnings growth outlook over the next couple of years and whether the future looks even brighter than the past. 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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Market analysts’ prospects for this coming year seems buoyant, with earnings climbing by a robust 12%. This growth seems to continue into the following year with rates arriving at double digit 26% compared to today’s earnings, and finally hitting €324m by 2022.

BIT:FBK Past and Future Earnings, March 4th 2019
BIT:FBK Past and Future Earnings, March 4th 2019

Even though it’s useful to understand the rate of growth year by year relative to today’s level, it may be more insightful analyzing the rate at which the business is growing every year, on average. The pro of this approach is that it removes the impact of near term flucuations and accounts for the overarching direction of FinecoBank Banca Fineco’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 10%. This means, we can anticipate FinecoBank Banca Fineco will grow its earnings by 10% every year for the next few years.

Next Steps:

For FinecoBank Banca Fineco, there are three key aspects 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 FBK 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 FBK is currently mispriced by the market.

  3. Other High-Growth Alternatives: Are there other high-growth stocks you could be holding instead of FBK? Explore our interactive list of stocks with large growth potential to get an idea of what else is out there you may be missing!

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