Yahoo Finance What Are Analysts Expecting From Boliden AB (STO:BOL) In The Year Ahead?
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After Boliden AB’s (STO:BOL) earnings announcement on 31 December 2018, analyst forecasts seem bearish, with earnings expected to decline by -18% in the upcoming year compared with the past 5-year average growth rate of 36%. Presently, with latest-twelve-month earnings at kr7.2b, we should see this fall to kr5.9b by 2020. I will provide a brief commentary around the figures and analyst expectations in the near term. For those keen to understand more about other aspects of the company, you can research its fundamentals here.
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How is Boliden going to perform in the near future?
The 14 analysts covering BOL view its longer term outlook with a negative sentiment. Since forecasting becomes more difficult further into the future, broker analysts generally project out to around three years. To understand the overall trajectory of BOL’s earnings growth over these next fews years, I’ve fitted a line through these analyst earnings forecast to determine an annual growth rate from the slope.
This results in an annual growth rate of -6.9% based on the most recent earnings level of kr7.2b to the final forecast of kr5.9b by 2022. This leads to an EPS of SEK23.21 in the final year of projections relative to the current EPS of SEK26.32. Earnings decline appears to be a result of cost outpacing top line growth of 0.8% over the next few years. With this high cost growth, margins is expected to contract from 14% to 11% by the end of 2022.
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