Yahoo Finance Big Yellow Group Plc (LON:BYG): What We Can Expect From This Growth Stock
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As Big Yellow Group Plc (LON:BYG) released its earnings announcement on 31 March 2019, the consensus outlook from analysts appear fairly confident, with earnings expected to grow by 23% in the upcoming year relative to the past 5-year average growth rate of 10%. Currently with trailing-twelve-month earnings of UK£127m, we can expect this to reach UK£155m by 2020. In this article, I've outline a few earnings growth rates to give you a sense of the market sentiment for Big Yellow Group in the longer term. Readers that are interested in understanding the company beyond these figures should research its fundamentals here.
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Can we expect Big Yellow Group to keep growing?
The 7 analysts covering BYG view its longer term outlook with a positive sentiment. Given that it becomes hard to forecast far into the future, broker analysts tend to project ahead roughly three years. To reduce the year-on-year volatility of analyst earnings forecast, I've inserted a line of best fit through the expected earnings figures to determine the annual growth rate from the slope of the line.
From the current net income level of UK£127m and the final forecast of UK£173m by 2022, the annual rate of growth for BYG’s earnings is 8.4%. EPS reaches £1.31 in the final year of forecast compared to the current £0.78 EPS today. With a current profit margin of 100%, this movement will result in a margin of 115% by 2022.
Next Steps:
Future outlook is only one aspect when you're building an investment case for a stock. For Big Yellow Group, I've put together three essential 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 Big Yellow Group 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 Big Yellow Group is currently mispriced by the market.
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