Yahoo Finance What Do Analysts Think About Deutsche Telekom AG's (FRA:DTE) Growth?
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The latest earnings update Deutsche Telekom AG (FRA:DTE) released in December 2018 confirmed that the business experienced a substantial headwind with earnings deteriorating by -37%. Below is a brief commentary on my key takeaways on how market analysts perceive Deutsche Telekom's earnings growth outlook 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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Market analysts' consensus outlook for this coming year seems optimistic, with earnings growing by a significant 93%. This strong growth in earnings is expected to continue, bringing the bottom line up to €5.5b by 2022.
Even though it is useful to understand the growth year by year relative to today’s figure, it may be more valuable to analyze the rate at which the company is rising or falling every year, on average. The benefit of this technique is that we can get a bigger picture of the direction of Deutsche Telekom'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've inserted 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 28%. This means, we can expect Deutsche Telekom will grow its earnings by 28% every year for the next few years.
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