Plastiques du Val de Loire (EPA:PVL): What's The Analyst Consensus Outlook?
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Plastiques du Val de Loire's (EPA:PVL) announced its latest earnings update in September 2018, which revealed that the business experienced a slight headwind with earnings falling from €42m to €40m, a change of -6.6%. Below, I've presented key growth figures on how market analysts view Plastiques du Val de Loire's earnings growth trajectory over the next couple of 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 the coming year seems pessimistic, with earnings decreasing by -4.8%. Beyond this, earnings should continue to be below today's level, with a decrease of -5.3% in 2021, eventually reaching €38m in 2022.
Although it is helpful to be aware of the growth year by year relative to today’s value, it may be more insightful analyzing the rate at which the business is rising or falling every year, on average. The pro of this technique is that it ignores near term flucuations and accounts for the overarching direction of Plastiques du Val de Loire's earnings trajectory over time, fluctuate up and down. To compute this rate, I put 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 3.5%. This means, we can presume Plastiques du Val de Loire will grow its earnings by 3.5% every year for the next couple of years.
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