Yahoo Finance What Are Analysts Saying About LSL Property Services plc's (LON:LSL) Future?
On 30 June 2019, LSL Property Services plc (LON:LSL) announced its earnings update. Overall, analysts seem highly optimistic, with profits predicted to ramp up by an impressive 59% next year, against the past 5-year average growth rate of -1.0%. By 2020, we can expect LSL Property Services’s bottom line to reach UK£28m, a jump from the current trailing-twelve-month of UK£18m. 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 will LSL Property Services perform in the near future?
Over the next three years, it seems the consensus view of the 3 analysts covering LSL is skewed towards the positive sentiment. Broker analysts tend to forecast up to three years ahead due to a lack of clarity around the business trajectory beyond this. To get an idea of the overall earnings growth trend for LSL, 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.
By 2022, LSL's earnings should reach UK£44m, from current levels of UK£18m, resulting in an annual growth rate of 20%. EPS reaches £0.23 in the final year of forecast compared to the current £0.17 EPS today. In 2022, LSL's profit margin will have expanded from 5.5% to 14%.
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