Yahoo Finance Will MTU Aero Engines AG's (ETR:MTX) Earnings Grow In The Next Couple Of Years?
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MTU Aero Engines AG's (ETR:MTX) announced its latest earnings update in December 2018, which signalled that the company experienced a robust tailwind, eventuating to a double-digit earnings growth of 26%. Investors may find it useful to understand how market analysts predict MTU Aero Engines's earnings growth trajectory over the next few years and whether the future looks even brighter than the past. 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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Market analysts' consensus outlook for next year seems rather muted, with earnings rising by a single digit 8.5%. The growth outlook in the following year seems much more optimistic with rates generating double digit 20% compared to today’s earnings, and finally hitting €598m by 2022.
Even though it’s helpful to be aware of the growth rate year by year relative to today’s level, it may be more insightful to determine the rate at which the business is moving every year, on average. The benefit of this method is that we can get a bigger picture of the direction of MTU Aero Engines'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 appended 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 7.7%. This means that, we can anticipate MTU Aero Engines will grow its earnings by 7.7% every year for the next couple of years.
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