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KAZ Minerals PLC (LON:KAZ): What’s The Analyst Consensus Outlook?

The latest earnings update KAZ Minerals PLC (LON:KAZ) released in December 2017 indicated that the company gained from a major tailwind, more than doubling its earnings from the prior year. Below, I’ve laid out key numbers on how market analysts view KAZ Minerals’s earnings growth outlook over the next few years and whether the future looks even brighter than the past. 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. View out our latest analysis for KAZ Minerals

Analysts’ outlook for this coming year seems positive, with earnings growing by a robust 48.86%. This growth seems to continue into the following year with rates arriving at double digit 61.88% compared to today’s earnings, and finally hitting UK£716.14m by 2021.

LSE:KAZ Future Profit June 25th 18
LSE:KAZ Future Profit June 25th 18

Although it’s useful to be aware of the growth each year relative to today’s value, it may be more insightful evaluating the rate at which the business is moving every year, on average. The pro of this approach is that we can get a better picture of the direction of KAZ Minerals’s earnings trajectory over the long run, irrespective of near term fluctuations, be more volatile. 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 10.27%. This means, we can assume KAZ Minerals will grow its earnings by 10.27% every year for the next few years.

Next Steps:

For KAZ Minerals, I’ve put together three pertinent aspects you should further examine:

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  1. 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.

  2. Valuation: What is KAZ 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 KAZ is currently mispriced by the market.

  3. Other High-Growth Alternatives: Are there other high-growth stocks you could be holding instead of KAZ? Explore our interactive list of stocks with large growth potential to get an idea of what else is out there you may be missing!


To help readers see pass the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price sensitive company announcements.

The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned.