Secure Income REIT Plc (LON:SIR): Earnings Growth Remains Elusive
In December 2018, Secure Income REIT Plc (LON:SIR) announced its most recent earnings update, which signalled that the business gained from a small tailwind, leading to a single-digit earnings growth of 7.5%. Today I want to provide a brief commentary on how market analysts predict Secure Income REIT's earnings growth trajectory over the next few years and whether the future looks even brighter than the past. I will be using net income excluding extraordinary items in order to exclude one-off volatility which I am not interested in.
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Market analysts' consensus outlook for next year seems pessimistic, with earnings falling by -6.2%. Beyond this, earnings are predicted to continue to be below today's level, with a fall of -19% in 2021, eventually reaching UK£120m in 2022.
Even though it’s helpful to understand the rate of growth each year relative to today’s value, it may be more beneficial to gauge the rate at which the business is moving every year, on average. The benefit of this method is that it removes the impact of near term flucuations and accounts for the overarching direction of Secure Income REIT's earnings trajectory over time, fluctuate up and down. To calculate 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 -6.5%. This means that, we can anticipate Secure Income REIT will chip away at a rate of -6.5% every year for the next few years.
Next Steps:
For Secure Income REIT, I've compiled three important factors you should further research:
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.
Valuation: What is SIR 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 SIR is currently mispriced by the market.
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