Yahoo Finance What Should We Expect From Primary Health Properties Plc’s (LON:PHP) Earnings Over The Next Few Years?
Primary Health Properties Plc’s (LON:PHP) latest earnings announcement in December 2018 suggested that the company experienced a significant headwind with earnings falling by -19%. Today I want to provide a brief commentary on how market analysts perceive Primary Health Properties’s earnings growth trajectory over the next couple of years and whether the future looks brighter. I will be using net income excluding extraordinary items in order to exclude one-off volatility which I am not interested in.
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Analysts’ outlook for this coming year seems rather muted, with earnings expanding by a single digit 7.9%. The growth outlook in the following year seems much more positive with rates generating double digit 34% compared to today’s earnings, and finally hitting UK£115m by 2022.
Even though it’s helpful to understand the growth rate year by year relative to today’s value, it may be more beneficial estimating the rate at which the business is moving on average every year. The advantage of this approach is that it removes the impact of near term flucuations and accounts for the overarching direction of Primary Health Properties’s earnings trajectory over time, which may be more relevant for long term investors. To compute this rate, I’ve appended 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 15%. This means, we can assume Primary Health Properties will grow its earnings by 15% every year for the next few years.
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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.
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