Yahoo Finance How Do Analysts See Alpha Financial Markets Consulting plc (LON:AFM) Performing In The Next Couple Of Years?
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Alpha Financial Markets Consulting plc's (LON:AFM) most recent earnings announcement in March 2019 suggested that the business turned profitable again after incurring losses in the previous financial year. Today I want to provide a brief commentary on how market analysts perceive Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's earnings growth outlook over the next few 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 next year seems positive, with earnings rising by a significant 52%. This high growth in earnings is expected to continue, bringing the bottom line up to UK£16m by 2022.
While it is helpful to understand the growth rate year by year relative to today’s value, it may be more beneficial to analyze the rate at which the business is rising or falling every year, on average. The advantage of this method is that we can get a bigger picture of the direction of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's earnings trajectory over the long run, irrespective of near term fluctuations, which may be more relevant for long term investors. 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 18%. This means, we can presume Alpha Financial Markets Consulting will grow its earnings by 18% every year for the next few years.
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For Alpha Financial Markets Consulting, I've put together three key factors you should look at:
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 AFM 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 AFM is currently mispriced by the market.
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